22 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



salar and Salmo trutta being much superior 

 fish. All doubts about the Salmo salar haying 

 been successfully established in Tasmania 

 have finally been set at rest by a specimen sent 

 to Melbourne in 1877, which Professor McCoy 

 identified as a true salmon, although only 

 of small size, being about four pounds in 

 weight. 



The small number of ova left in Melbourne 

 — about 3000 — out of the shipment by the 

 Norfolk produced a few hundred fry, many 

 of which, however, disappeared mysteriously 

 in the hatching boxes. A small remnant of 

 these were taken to the Upper Yarra, and 

 300 live salmon were stated to have been 

 liberated successfully on that occasion, in a 

 tank made to keep them for a time ; of which 

 number about 120 were afterwards placed in 

 the Badger Creek, a tributary of the Yarra; 

 but up to this time none of these fish, or of 

 their progeny, have been caught, and there is 

 no evidence to show that they have survived 

 to propagate their species. 



A fourth attempt was made to introduce 

 the salmon into Tasmania, and another ship- 

 ment of ova was sent by the Lincolnshire, 



