172 Transactions. —Zoology. 
Abdominal cavity was black, the viscera had almost disappeared from 
decay, one long silvery lobe only being recognizable, probably the air- 
bladder. Vent situated immediately in advance of anal fin. 
In form this specimen corresponded almost exactly with figure at p. 136, 
vol. iii, Trans. N.Z. Inst., which is an excellent drawing of the species. 
According to the Catalogue of New Zealand Fishes, the upokororo 
had not been found in the sea, but only in the rivers and lakes of both 
islands. Mr. Rutland’s account however (vol. x., Trans. N.Z. Inst.) is, I 
think, conclusive circumstantially that during a portion of the year it is 
resident in salt water, as it is never seen in the Maitai and other neigbouring 
rivers of Nelson excepting during autumn and winter when spawning or 
getting into spawning quarters, but disappears entirely for the rest of the 
year. Recently, on 29th September, Mr. A. K. Smith informed me of a fish 
he had been keeping for me which was taken in the sea at Otago Heads off 
the North Spit but which I did not get—evidently a grayling. He described 
it as found by him among some mullet to which it had a general likeness, 
but on closer inspection he found the first dorsal fin was softer and had 
more rays than the mullets, while the second dorsal had no rays. The head 
was small and salmon-like, pectoral fin-origin lower than in mullet, body 
rounder, silvery and spotless. I have found Mr. Smith very correct and 
reliable in his observations on fish, so that I believe in this case also he is 
not mistaken, although it is not impossible that the fish may have been a 
spotless trout or young salmon-trout. 
References.—Cat. N.Z. Fishes, 1872, p. 123; Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. iii. 
p. 186, and vol. x., p. 250. Specimens are in Otago Museum. 
Norz.— The order of classification I have followed is that of Dr. Günther 
in his ** Study of Fishes,” 1880, as ee families. 
Art. XVII.—Notes on Moa Remains in the Mackenzie Country and other 
Localities. By FREDERICK CHAPMAN. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 10th June, 1884.] 
I propose in this paper to give the result of some unconnected observations 
made during the past summer upon the remains of moas which I found in 
widely separate localities. . There may be nothing very interesting in these 
observations, but I think it may be of some use to record facts gathered in 
this way, as they all serve in some slight degree at least to add to the 
" accumulated fund of information on the subject. The subject is one of 
interest, and when it comes to be dealt with as a whole by some competent 
