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counting out 100 into a bucket, and after- 

 wards netting about the same number as 

 near as could be guessed, and noting tbe 

 number of hundreds put in the cans. The 

 later lots, being smaller in number, were 

 counted with care, and, when all were 

 counted, a very considerable loss was found 

 to have unaccountably taken place ; but it was 

 found that lizards and snakes had made their 

 way into one of the hatching-boxes, and no 

 doubt they had devoured many of the alevins. 

 One snake was caught inside of the cover of 

 wire-netting put over the hatching-race, and 

 killed ; and a lizard was found with a Galaxias 

 five inches long, which it had dragged out of 

 the water, and which was still alive. 



An objection has been made to my dividing 

 the salmon into different lots, as it is supposed 

 that they would have had a better prospect of 

 success if a large number had been placed in 

 one river. From the fact of six pairs of 

 breeding trout having only been retained in 

 the ponds at New Norfolk, and that these, 

 with 30 more turned into the river, are the 

 parents of all the trout in the Australian 

 colonies, it will be evident that by dividing 



