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than a fifth of the total length of the fish. The anal fin had ten rays, also 
bwo spines or rudimentary rays ; the abdominal and anal fins were white. 
So extraordinarily fat was this fish, that the cleft of the mouth was distorted 
or drawn very much down, while the snout was very like that of the genus 
Oncorhynchus. The fin-rays and gill-covers, etc., however, convinced me 
that it was a brown trout (S. fario), while its general appearance was 
suggestive of some duration of residence in brackish water. The stomach 
contained a little mucus, but I took a native minnow three inches long out 
of its gullet. It was too much decomposed for me to examine the ceca, 
which I have observed decay sooner in hot gen than the other viscera ; 
in fact they are very perishable. 
The yearly rate of growth in the most of the streams above recorded, 
from 1878 to 1883, and which I cannot compare with their growth prior to 
1878, from want of sufficient data, may be seen more readily from the fol- 
lowing table :— 
Yearly growth of Trout, 1878 to 1883. 
lbs. 
Oamarama .. aa n de su ee 53; 2 00 
Kakanui RB ee e i» s be vec PU 
Waikouaiti .. yee ny s. ve v3 os UT 
Fulton's Creek Š $ . $. “FOU 
Lovell’s Creek we : si 1:66 
Puerua * Y . .. 20 
Waiwera 2 eet 145 
Waipahi s». 100 
Otaria .. : 0°75 
Mimihau Ra hg š T 3:4 I 
Pomáhaka Š ; ee 1:08 
Waitahuna .. > $ ña * via 
Manuherikia . ex è ns se 6 vs 100 
Hayes Lake . re és as s <. =s: 0:50 
Wakatipu Lake e Ud 
Of course I do not claim more for ien table oat that it shows what the 
least possible growth of the trout per annum maybe. Likely in some cases 
it is more, although it would be difficult to find any growth of trout to 
exceed that in Hayes Lake. I cannot from exact information as yet 
decide the interesting question of what the Hayes Lake trout fatten on; 
and mere inferences, even when probably correct, should not be depended 
on. 
As to the edible qualities of the trout in these rivers, a fair proportion of 
good eating trout can be got in most of them. The best I have partaken of 
was a single 51b. female trout from the Oreti River as already stated ; 
a finer one could not be desired. Next to it I have found the Waipahi and 
