CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Page. 



General definition of Fishes The principal parts of a Fish 

 The Teeth The Air-Bladder The Eyes The Tongue The 

 Skeleton The Fins The Scales The Lateral-Line Barbels 

 Colouration Breeding Habits and Eggs Australian Fishes 

 producing Pelagic Eggs The Classification of Fishes Table of 

 Classification of Australian Fishes z 



CHAPTER II. 



The Giant Herrings The Osteoglossids The Dorab The 

 Herring Family The Salmon Family The Alepocephaloids 

 Stomiatoid Fishes The Beaked Salmon The Carp Family The 

 Catfish Family 23 



CHAPTER III. 



The Little Shore-Eels The True Eels The Australian Min- 

 nows Tke "Grayling" Family The Scopeloids The Lancet- 

 Fishes Xotacanthoid Fishes The Fierasferoids Flute-Mouths 

 or Tobacco--Pipe Fishes Bellows-Fishes or Sea-Snipes Sea- 

 Horses and Pipe-Fishes Sea-Dragons 43 



CHAPTER IV. 



Long-Toms, Garfishes and Flying-Fishes The Hardyhead 

 Family The Mullet Family Threadfins or Tassel-Fishes The 

 Pike Family 64 



CHAPTER V. 



Cuvier's Square-Tail The \Vhario Family The Grenadiers 

 or Whiptails The Cod Family The Xannygai Family Knight 

 Fishes Bull's-eyes Centrarchoid Fishes The Blackfish Family 

 The Triple-tails Rifle -I- ishes The Perch Family 84 



