Inhabits rocky places. Good to eat. Caught by the seine, on the 3rd
March, 1841.
CIRRHITIDAE.
No. 24. - CHEILODACTYLUS GIBBOSUS. Solander. Icon. Ined. Banks. No.
23. - Richardson Zool. Trans. 3, p. 102. - Native name KNELOCK (not
certain).
Inhabits sandy beaches; is little known to the sealers. Caught in a net,
3rd March, 1841.
No. 39. CHEILODACTYLUS CARPONEMUS. - C. et V. 5. p. 362. - Native name
CHETTANG. "Jew-fish" of the sealers (the name "Jew-fish" is applied
otherwise by the colonists).
Inhabits rocky shores. Some specimens weigh upwards of sixteen pounds.
Caught by hook, 17th May, 1841.
No. 42. - CHEILODACTYLUS. Native name TOORJENONG. "Black Jew-fish" of the
sealers. "Rays, D. 16-26; A. 2-10; P. 13; V. 5."
Inhabits rocky points of sandy bays, where they love to run in and root
up the sand with their fleshy mouths. They are sluggish, and easily
speared by the Aborigines, whose chief food it constitutes at certain
seasons. The specimen was speared in my presence by Wallup, on the 8th of
June, 1841. The TOORJENONG grows to a large size, exceeding twenty pounds
in weight. It is a gross feeder, and its flesh is hard and dry, but the
head and sides are much prized by the natives, and the head of a large
one makes tolerable soup.
No. 45. - LATRIS? (vix. GERRES?) - Native name QUIKE or QUIK, (horned).
"Rays, 9-16; A. 3-16; P. 14; V. 1-5."
Caught by the hook, off Rocky Point, on the 17th of August, 1844.
