180 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Back fins, tail, and pectoral fins, dark steel grey, but lighter than the back; 

 ventral and anal fins white. Eound black spots plentiful along back, but 

 few or none below lateral line, which is very distinct and raised ; spots also 

 on top of opercula and head ; a few at base of dorsal fin and at base of tail. 

 No red spots visible — j)ar marks eight, still faintly visible, under the deci- 

 duous silvery scales. 



Inform: Head well developed, lower shorter than upper jaw and show- 

 ing tendency to become hooked, upper jaw also hooked ; maxillary long, 

 drooping, and extending slightly behind the vertical from posterior margin 

 of the orbit — it is also narrow, fine, and rounded at the end. Eye large, 

 full, and black, with whitish yellow iris. Opercula well rounded or semicir- 

 cular in margin. Preoperculum with a distinct lower limb, vertical margin 

 at right angles to axis of fish and slightly sinuous. Suboperculum very 

 large, larger than operculum, in shape nearly a perfect quadrant ; junction 

 of operculum and suboperculum forming an angle of 45° with axis of fish or 

 with a vertical line. Body well filled out, outline of back slightly convex, 

 body tapering towards tail ; fins small relatively to body ; tail very large and 

 forked, spread If in. ; longest caudal ray, l^^in., shortest, -^ in. 



Dimensions : Length from snout to extremity of tail, 1^ in. ; to origin of 

 caudal rays, 6 in. ; depth, Ij^in. ; girth, 83^ in. ; head, l^in. ; from snout 

 to centre of eye, ^ in. ; eye to origin of dorsal, 21 in. ; eye to origin of pec- 

 toral, 3^ in. ; pectoral to origin of ventral, 1^ in. ; ventral to origin of anal, 

 1^5^ in. 



Fin rays: D.ll, P.14, V.IO, A.14, C.19. 

 Branchiostegous rays: 13 to 14. 

 Length of fins : Tf.^, P.^^, V.f , A. J^ in. 



Teeth : Mandible, maxillary, head and body of vomer, palatines, and 

 tongue all armed with teeth, those of mandible strongest and largest. 



Scales : Deciduous, 17 in transverse row from adipose fin backwards to 

 lateral line. 



Of the same hatching with above specimen 13,000 young S. qiiinnat were 

 reared, and then were put in the Kakanui river by Mr. Deans, manager 

 of the Otago Acclimatization Society, in January, 1878. 



Note. — The pyloric cseca of S. qidnnat are 155 in number, according to 

 Sir S. Wilson. 



2. Columbia salmon, Sahno paucidens (?), — a salted specimen as im- 

 ported into Dunedin from America. 



General description : Inform, — body of a fine handsome shape, well filled 

 out ; back finely arched, and hinder part of fish tapering off towards the 

 tail; flank very deep, and fish fat ; head incHned to be large, maxillary fine, 

 broad and flat, projects ^in. beyond vertical from posterior margin of orbit; 



