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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- 
had weather. 
It appears also to he found in fresh water, being noticed by 
Blandowsld amongst the sorts of the Murray Eiver. 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 Elvers. 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 Hew South Wales,” 1871, 
page 770, that Chateossus Erehi is found in the north Austra- 
lian rivers, the Murray, Clarence, Burnett, Pitzroy, &c., and that 
according to Mr. Masters, it is called Sony Eream by the 
Burnett settlers. 
ENHEAULIS. 
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. 
