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extremely fat, and attains an uncommon size. A 

 specimen so fed measured nineteen inches. 



34. MTJGIL MUTILINEATTJS. A. Smith. (?) (Springer; 

 Lea/ping Mullet.} Greatly resembling the former, but 

 easily distinguishable ; its head being neither so 

 broad nor flat, but rather a little convex on its top. 

 Lower jaw more rounded ; and body traversed by 

 thirteen longitudinal narrow stripes. Colour of 

 back and upper side, greenish brown ; crown of head 

 faint purple with oil green. Gill covers, tinted with 

 gold ; ventral fin, purplish. Lower part of belly, 

 greyish white on a silvery base. Length, twelve 

 inches. It is in the habit of leaping constantly, and 

 with considerable velocity, when it finds itself en 

 tangled in a net ; and hence its name. 



Besides the two kinds of mullet here described, 

 there are three or four more species recorded as inhabit 

 ants of the bays and rivers of the colony. All of 

 them are caught with the net. They make good 

 table fish, but are more frequently salted or smoke- 

 dried (Bokkours) like the herring; and thus pre 

 served, form a very considerable article of home 

 consumption as well as of export. 



BLENNID2B. 



35. BLENNIUS VERSICOLOB. Mihi. N. Sp. (Rlip- 

 visch.) Body, elongated, smooth, slimy, spindle- 



