4-0 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



The name " Quinnat " is that given to this 

 fish by the Indians, and it signifies " glitter- 

 ing," in reference to its silvery lustre. The 

 name of a Welsh salmonoid " Grwyniad " — also 

 in reference to the shining appearance of that 

 fish — has a curious resemblance to the Indian 

 word, and the coincidence is a problem for 

 philologists to solve. 



This salmonoid, similarly to the trout, 

 salmon, salmon-trout, the grayling, and pro- 

 bably even the Coregonus, has, in its young 

 state, the transverse bands or parr marks, 

 clearly distinguishable, and they gradually 

 disappear after a certain stage in the de- 

 velopment of the fish, this being a family 

 feature of all the salmonidse, in an early 

 stage of their existence. 



The quality which the Salmo quinnat pos- 

 sesses, and which makes it peculiarly suitable 

 to the Australian streams and rivers, is its 

 power of resisting high temperatures without 

 danger, and even with apparent comfort. 

 The habits of this species differ somewhat 

 from those of the Salmo salar in its period 

 of spawning, the ova being deposited in 

 summer and hatched out in the autumn, in- 



