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human. -Colour blackish- brown, tinted with purple; 



back and sides crossed by five broad black vertical bands; 



belly silvery- white. Length about eighteen inches. 



Common to Table Bay from June to August, and much in request 

 particularly at the time when it is with roe. It is also cured and 

 pickled for ceconomical purposes. — From the circumstance of its being 

 chiefly taken in deep water, near a place called Hangherg (overhanging 

 rock), it has received its present colonial name. It feeds on shell-fish 

 and is caught with the hook. 



11. Sargus Capensis. A.Smith. {Hottentot Fish.) 

 Body much resembling that of the former, but more 

 attenuated at base, and destitute of any bands or vertical 

 stripes. Head purplish • back dull bluish-green with a 

 metallic gloss; sides beneath the longitudinal line, silvery, 

 with a reddish tint. Iris white. 



Caught at all seasons with the hook, and is not only a superior table 

 fish, but forms, when salted and dried, an article of exportation. Mostly 

 confined to Table Bay and the West Coast, were it is found abundantly. 

 Length from twelve to fourteen inches. 



12. Chrysophrys Globiceps. Cuv. & Val. (Stomp- 

 neus.) — Forehead arched, rounded, almost gibbous, 

 muzzle obtuse, small ; teeth thick, firm, tubercular, 

 standing in four rows on the sides of both jaws. Body 

 broad. Crown above the eyes olive-green with aurora- 

 red. Back bluish-grey • belly white, silvery ; a black 

 spot at the insertion of the pectorals ; Iris red ; pupil 

 dark. The younger individuals have six or seven brown 

 longitudinal stripes, and six transversal dark bands, which 

 disappear in the adults. 



A favourite fish, and often caught in great abundance during summer, 

 with the drag-net. It also makes an excellent pickle-fish. 



13. Chrysophrys Laticeps. Cuv. & Val. (Boode 

 Steenbrasem.) — Head very large, gibbous; crown elevat- 

 ed, broad, convex, tapering towards the snout ; eyes 

 almost vertical ; mouth of a moderate size ; muzzle 

 pointed, but blunt ; lips fleshy. Upper mandible armed 

 in front with four large, strong, conical teeth, and the 

 lower one with six corresponding with those of the upper; 



