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localities. During several years, not only did I visit several times 
a day the Fish Market of Cape Town, tut the Malay fishermen 
were most active in endeavouring to obtain specimens for me. 
Sir A. Smith himself, in his “ Illustrations of South Australian 
Zoology,” mentions a numher of sorts of fishes much smaller 
even than the one I obtained myself (about 40) ; and Dr. Pappe, 
after ten years’ study of the fishes of the Cape, only mentions 
45 sorts of edible ones. (“ Synopsis of the JSdihle Fishes of the 
Cape of Good Hope.” Cape Town, 1853.) As a general rule, 
I believe that the great Antarctic Sea will be found to con- 
tain less sorts of fishes than most others, and that this will 
also be the case with the rivers and lakes of the same regions. 
With few exceptions, the fishes of the southern parts of Aus- 
tralia are peculiar to the region they inhabit, as of 142 sorts 
(exclusive of a doubtful sort of cyprinidoe), 11 only are found in 
other regions, that is, 5 of the 123 sorts of Teleostei, and 6 of the 
19 species of cartillaginous fishes. The five of the first are — 
1. Temnodon Saltator, which is very widely spread over almost 
all the tropical and temperate seas of the globe. 2. Thyrsites 
Atuni, found also at the Cape of Good Hope. 3. Tetraodon 
Hispidus, found in the Fed Sea and all over the Indian Ocean. 
4. Diodon Spinosissimus, from the Cape of Good Hope and the 
Indian Sea. 5. Orthagoriscus Ilola, from the European seas. 
To this I ought, perhaps, to add Mugil Waigiensis, first dis- 
covered in Hew Guinea ; but this large island may be considered 
as belonging to the Australian zoological zona. 
Amongst the cartillaginous fishes, we find Sygcena Malleus, 
Galeus Canis, Fliina Sguatina, Faya Oxyrhynchus, and Myliohates 
Aquila, all found in the European seas ; and Chimosra Antarctica, 
from the Cape of Good Hope. It would seem as if the more the 
bones take a cartillaginous nature, the more the animal would 
be able to support the changes of climate, &c. ; but it must als® 
be observed that some of these last sorts have not been sufii- 
eiently well compared with European specimens. 
The fact that not one single true Serranus seems to inhabit 
the southern shores of Australia {S. Fasor being very distinct in 
general appearance) is also remarkable, as I had already observed 
the same fact at Table Bay; and here also, on the eastern coast, as 
at Natal and Algoa Bay, several sorts of real Serranus are found. 
