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giadually more numerous and larger, till we reach the ventral line, where 
they become very large and well raised, possessing in the posterior half a 
small hook turned backwards. 
Postscript, 22nd December, 1877.— The following account taken from a 
New Zealand newspaper about the middle of July, 1877, shows that another 
specimen of Regalecus has been washed ashore on the west coast of this 
island. From the short description in that paragraph it appears that the 
fish in question is either a specimen of Regalecus pacificus, or at least belongs 
to a nearly allied species, the main difference being that the first portion of 
| the dorsal fin in the west coast specimen has ten spines instead of nine as 
in the former. It is also interesting to observe that each of the two strong 
ventralrays was two feet long, but no data are given from which we can 
conclude that they were intact :—'* An extraordinary fish was picked up on 
the Little Waimangaroa beach, Karamea District, by Mr. Alexander 
McDonald, on Tuesday last, of which the following description is furnished 
by the Westport Times :—Length, 14 feet 4 inches; girth, 2 feet 7 inches ; : 
one dorsal fin extending from head to tail; from the top of the head there 
extended ten feelers, each one foot in Lash, and two similar appendages, 
about two feet in length, grew underneath the jaw, resembing in appearance 
the feelers of a lobster; on each side of the head there was one small fin, 
and the gills of the fish resemble those of a turbot; the body was of a 
bright silvery hue and covered with fine scales, the shape of the body being 
more flat than round; the eyes resembled those of a cod-fish. When 
found it had only recently been stranded, as it was not quite dead. This is 
probably some large species of frost-fish.” 
Art. XXXII.—On the Habits of the New Zealand Grayling. 
By J. Rurrawp. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 5th June, 1877.] 
Hearne that very little is positively known of the habits of the New Zealand 
grayling, I have collected information from various quarters, which, together 
with the results of my own observations, I now communicate. 
My attention was first directed to the grayling in 1858. Being then 
resident in the Waimea (Nelson) I was informed that during the winter 
di . months large numbers of these fish came into a small brook which ran close 
to my house. This brook, about thirty feet wide, after draining part of the 
flat bush land of Waimea South, emptied itself into the Waiti, a tributary 
