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. Eutland'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. Eecently, 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 tban 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. 136, and vol. x., p. 250. Specimens are in Otago Museum. 



Note. — The order of classification I have followed is that of Dr. GKmther 

 in his " Study of Fishes," 1880, as regards families. 



Art. XVII. — Notes on Moa Remains in the Mackenzie Country and other 

 Localities. By Frederick Chapman. 

 [Read before the Otago Institute, Wth 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 



