140 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



healthy specimens of the Salmo salar were 

 still alive, and doing well when I last heard 

 from Australia. They made rapid growth, 

 and at about six months old, were nearly 

 two inches in length, and very thriving and 

 healthy. I shall try to keep these fish in 

 the ponds at Ercildoune until they are of 

 the age to spawn, in the hope that some 

 fertile ova may be obtained from them. 

 This small number could not, at any rate, be 

 expected to do much in stocking a river, 

 taking into account all the dangers to which 

 they would be exposed, and the experiment of 

 retaining them in fresh water may give some 

 very interesting and valuable results. 



