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creeks by hooking, and by the nets which the natives use. 
It is not uncommon, but is considered unwholesome for 
food. The skin is taken off and dried, and used for making 
a small kind of drum. You notice its curious teeth. It 
has no spines. There are very small, very short, bristles 
about the side or shoulder ; and a native told me that if 
these pierce the hand they cause injury, being poisonous, 
and that those who handle the fish remove the part where 
these small bristle points lie. I have examined the fish, 
and felt these same bristles, but have seen nothing danger- 
ous about them ; and other informants pronounced the fish 
quite harmless in respect of the little points. I have never 
seen a large one blown up, but have a very young one in- 
flated, and will send it to you. The inflation is so great 
that the dead fish lies on its back. I believe the Etuet is 
found down near the river s mouth ; it may be called an 
estuary fish. The etymology of the name I do not know. 
Most of our names being significant, I presume Etuet once 
was so ; it would be a part of a verb descriptive of some- 
thing about the fish. There is a kind of leech found in the 
marsh pools, which is called by the same name, probably 
l)ecause it becomes enlarged like the fish, when gorged w4th 
blood. The colour of the Etuet is lightish brown on the 
back, and white on the belly, Avith bright red spots running 
along both sides. There are darker spots on the back also. 
There is nothing else remarkable about it known to me. 
When recently taken out of the water, it inflated itself when 
struck.'' 
This fish seems, therefore, to differ from that described by 
Mr Murray, in the dilatable belly being quite free from 
prickles or spines ; should it turn out to be new, which 
seems not improbable, as I have not been able to find a 
similar fish described, I would take the liberty of suggesting 
for it the name of Tetraoclon leiogaste?' — The Smooth-Bellied 
Tetraodon. I am unable, however, to decide the question, 
not having access here to various necessary authorities. 
