Caught by hook, 15th
May, 1841. Good eating.
MULLIDAE.
No. 13. - UPENEUS. - Native name, MINAME, or KGNARNUCK (the bearded); "Red
mullet" of the settlers.
PERCIDAE.
No. 46. - ENOPLOSUS ARMATUS. Cuv. et Val. 2, p. 133, pl. 20. - Native name,
KARLOCK. Speared by a native, June 1841. Inhabits rocky shores.
BERYCIDAE.
No. 2. - BERYX LINEATUS, C. and V. 3, p. 226. - Native name, CHETONG. Red
Snapper, or Tide-fisher of the sealers. Very common in the bays of rocky
shores. "Rays, D. 5-14; A. 4-13; P. 12; V. 1-7."
SPHYRAENIDAE.
No. 59. - SPHYROENA. - Native name, KORDONG. "Rays, D. 5, 1-9; A. 11; P.
13; V. 1-5."
The "Common Baracoota" is found off the whole coast of New Holland, but
the KORDONG seems to be peculiar to Western Australia. It comes into the
shallow bays in summer; and being a sluggish fish, is easily speared by
the 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.
SILLAGINIDAE.
No. 25. - SILLAGO. - Native name, MURDAR. "Rock whiting" of the settlers.
"Rays, D. 10-23; A. 18; P. 13; A. 5."
Inhabits rocky shores and deep water. Caught by the seine, 3rd April,
1841. Good eating.
No. 11. - 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.
SCIAENIDAE.
No. 55. - CORVINA? - Native name T'CHARK or T'CHYARK. King-fish of the
sealers. "Rays, D. 9 - 1-27; A. 1-7; P. 15; V. 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.)
SERRANIDAE.
No. 19. - CENTROPRISTES TRUTTA. SCIAENA TRUTTA, G. Foster, Icon. 210.
(vide Ichth. of Ereb. and Terror, p. 30.) - Native name KING-NURRIE, or
IINAGUR. "Salmon" of the sealers. Pectorals yellow or orange coloured,
with dark bases; scales faintly fan-streaked; last rays of dorsal and
anal elongated. Faint oblong, orange-coloured spots on the sides, not in
vertical rows.
