No. 44. - KURTUS? - Native name, TELYUA, or TELLYA, "Rays, D. 13; A. 2-19;
V.5."
Thrown up on Albany beach, 14th of August, 1841.
PLATESSIDEAE.
No. 50. - PLATESSA? vel. HIPPOGLOSSUS? CHUNDELA. - Native name, CHONDELAR,
or CHUNDELA. The "Spotted sole" of the settlers. Very common in all the
shallow bays in the summer time, where it may be taken by the seine. The
natives detect it when its body is buried in the sand, by the glistening
of its eyes, and spear it. When fishing with the torch, in the night
time, the natives feel for this fish with their naked feet. Specimen
caught by seine, August, 1841. This fish is delicate eating.
SCOMBERIDAE.
No. 32. - CARANX MICANS, Solander, Icon. Parkinson, Bib. Banks, No.
89. - Native name, MADAWICK, "Skip-jack" of the settlers. "Rays, D. 8-28;
A. 2-23; P. 15." Very common in shallow sandy bays, and forming the
staple food of the natives, who assemble in fine calm days, and drive
shoals of this fish into weirs that they have constructed of shrubs and
branches of trees. Specimen caught by hook on the 12th of May, 1841.
No. 16. - TRACHURUS LUTESCENS. Solander (SCOMBER) Pisees Austr. p. 38.
Richard. Ann. Nat. Hist. x. p. 14. - Native name, WARAWITE and
MADIWICK.
