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Eye very large. Inhabits the edges of sandy banks. Good eating. Caught by hook 5th of March, 1841. No. 29. MUGIL vel. DAJAUS DIEMENSIS. Richardson, Ichth. of the Erebus and Terror, p. 37, pl. 26, f. 1. Native name, KNAMLER or KNAMALER. "Common mullet" of the settlers. "Rays, D. 4-9; A. 1-13."
While the crops are growing, large quantities of fish are caught, chiefly Clarias capensis, and Mugil Africanus; they are dried for sale or future consumption. As we ascended, we passed a deep stream about thirty yards wide, flowing in from a body of open water several miles broad.
Frequents shores with sandy beaches, and forms a principal article of food to the native youths, who are continually practising throwing their spears at this fish. It is very common, and is good eating. Caught by the seine, 12th April, 1841. No. 57. MUGIL. Native name, MERRONG, or MIRRONG. "The flut-nosed mullet" of the settlers. This is the finest fish of New Holland that I am acquainted with.
The manner in which such remains are occasionally carried by rivers into lakes, especially during floods, has been fully treated of in the "Principles of Geology." The remains of fish are occasionally useful in determining the fresh-water origin of strata. Other genera contain some fresh-water and some marine species, as Cottus, Mugil, and Anguilla, or eel.
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