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relied on by the most eminent ichthyologists as a 

 means of distinguishing the different species of 

 Salmonidce from each other. This fish was cap- 

 tured in a pool on the mud flat immediately below 

 the Causeway at Bridgewater, in which it had been 

 left by the retirement of the tide, and was one of a 

 shoal that had previously been observed rushing 

 about in the same locality at high water. 



During the year 1874 numerous other Grilses 

 were accidentally caught, chiefly in the bays near 

 Hobart Town, in grab-alls or hang-nets set for 

 the capture of native fish. Some of these were 

 minutely compared with the description of the 

 Salmo solar given by Dr. Giinther, the greatest 

 living authority on this branch of science, with 

 which they were found to agree. 



If any doubt remained respecting the success of 

 the enterprise in which the Colony had so long 

 been engaged, it was dissipated by the capture of 

 a large body of fish in a private seine in Sandy 

 Bay on the night of the 13th January, 1876. This 

 interesting event is thus correctly reported in the 

 Mercury newspaper of date 24th January, 1876 : — 



On the night of the 13th January instant six dozen and 

 four Smolts were taken in one haul of a seine net in that 

 part of the estuary of the Eiver Derwent known as Sandy 

 Bay, about a mile below Hobart Town. These fish varied 

 in weight from three quarters of a pound to one pound and a 



