98 DESCRIPTION OF NEW QUEENSLAND FISHES 
Note on some fishes which fell during the thunder-storm 
on the 7th instant.—On the 5th March, 1906* I had the 
privilege of reading before this Society a note on the pheno- 
mena commonly known as “showers of fishes.” In that 
note I showed that to my own knowledge two at least of 
our common creek forms were liable to be victims to these 
caprices of the elements, these being the “ carp gudgeon ”’ 
(Carassiops compressus) and the “ firetail” (Austrogobio 
galii). I have now the pleasure of adding to these a third 
species, namely, the “‘ trout gudgeon ” (Krefftius adspersus). 
On the morning of Monday, October 7th, after the pheno- 
minal hail- and thunder- storm of the preceding night, 
Mr. W. Adams, of Kelvin Grove, noticed numbers of these 
fishes lying dead in Victoria Park, which could have come 
to their untimely end by no other means. One circum- 
stance, however, tends to exalt the .present occurrence 
above the two which I have previously recorded, for whereas 
jn those the specimens collected were small, measuring less 
than an inch and a half, and weighing but a few grains, 
in this case the larger of the pair secured by Mr. Adams, 
and kindly forwarded by him to the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association Museum, has a total length of 98 millimeters 
(close on 4 inches), and weighs 125 grains, or almost exactly 
half an ounce. That fishes of such a size and bulk could 
be whirled up into the air and carried along for a consider- 
able distance shows the exceptionally violent character 
of that particular storm. 
* Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xx, 1906, p. 28. 
