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natives, who esteem it to be excellent food. It will lay for 
a minute looking with indifference at its enemy, while he 
poises the fatal and unerring spear. Specimen caught in a 
net, December, 1841. 
Sill AGiNiDiE. 
No. 25. — Sillago. — Native name, 1 Wurdcir. “ Rock 
whiting” of the settlers. <tf Rays, D. 10-23; A. 18; P. 
13; A- 5.” 
Inhabits rocky shores and deep water. Caught by the 
<keine, 3rd April, 1841. Good eating. 
No. 1 1. — Sillago punctata , C. et V 3, p. 413. — Native 
name Murdar . “ Common whiting” of the settlers. “ Rays, 
D. 12, 1-26; A. 22; P. 11; V. 5.” 
Inhabits shallow sandy bays abundantly, and is much 
admired for the delicacy of its flesh, but it is dryer eating 
than the whiting of Europe. 
SdiEN IDA3. 
No. 55. — Corvina ?— Native name T’chark or T'chyark . 
King- fish of the sealers. 6C Rays, D. 9 — 1-27; A. 1-7 ; 
P. 15 ; Y. 1-5.” 
Teeth strong and sharp. Grows to a great size ; as I am 
informed by the natives, that they often spear individuals 
weighing sixty or seventy pounds. This fish enters the 
fresh-water periodically, like the Salmon of Europe, to 
spawn, and it is the only fish in this country which I have 
distinctly made out to do so. It is tolerably good eating. 
The specimen was caught at the mouth of Oyster Harbour 
by a hook, on the 30th August, 1841. (This may be the 
adult of the Corvina Kuhlii of the Histoire des poissons, 
5. p. 121.) 
Sejrranid2e. 
No. 19. — Centropristes trutta. Scicena trutta, G. 
Foster, Icon 210. (vide Ichth. of Ereb. and Terror, p. 
