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extremely fat, and attains an uncommon size. A 

 specimen so fed measured nineteen inches. 



34. MuGiL MuTiLiNEATUS. A. Smith. (?) {Springer; 

 Leaping Mullet.) Grreatly 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. 



BLENNID^. 



35. Blennius Versicolob. Mihi. N". Sp. — {Rlip' 

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



