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esteemed as food, it sells at a high price ; I cannot discover if 

 it has a common name. 



The two or three specimens, I have seen, were found after very 

 bad weather. 



It appears also to be found in fresh water, being noticed by 

 Blandowski amongst the sorts of the Murray River. He says 

 the natives call it Manur ; and adds, " leaps frequently out of the 

 water, and is easily caught by its elongated ray in thin fine nets, 

 laid by the natives horizontally on the water. The fish gets 

 entangled in the twine, and cannot escape. It is most numerous 

 in the Darling, but is also found above and below the junction of 

 the Murray and Darling Rivers. In June and July it is consi- 

 dered a delicacy by the natives, and forms their principle food 

 during these two months. The young women are not permitted 

 to eat them, from a belief, that if they did all the fish in the 

 river would die ; but in reality, because it is thought to be an 

 aphrodisiac, this fish being very fat and nourishing. It is also 

 placed on the tops of graves, to point out the direction in which 

 he lives who caused the death of the inmate ; therefore this fish 

 is much esteemed." 



It is from ten to fourteen inches long. 



I have not yet been able to obtain any specimens from the fresh 

 waters, and I cannot say if it belongs to the sort which 

 inhabits Hobson's Bay. The largest I have seen of the latter is 

 thirteen inches long. 



I find in the " Industrial Progress of New South "Wales," 1871, 

 page 770, that Chateossus Erebi is found in the north Austra- 

 lian rivers, the Murray, Clarence, Burnett, Pitzroy, &c, and that 

 according to Mr. Masters, it is called Bony Bream by the 

 Burnett settlers. 



ETORAULIS. 



In following Dr. Gunther's division of this genus, this sort has 

 to be placed amongst those that have none of their pectoral rays 

 prolonged ; the teeth in the jaws about equal in size ; the origin 

 of the dorsal fin in advance of that of the anal, and teeth in both 

 jaws. 



The known sorts are not numerous, All have very numerous 

 rays to the anal, 



