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Mouth furnished with small sharp teeth. Caught by hook, 12th March, 1841. No. 37. LABRUS? Native name, PARIL, KUHOUL, or BOMBURN. "Black rock-fish" of the sealers. "Rays, D. 9-11; A. 3-10 seconds, etc." Inhabits rocky shores, and grows to the size of fifteen or twenty pounds weight. Poor, soft eating. Speared by Warrawar, 12th May, 1841. No. 7.

Native name KOOGENUCK, QUEJUIMUCK, or KNOWL. Little known to the sealers. "Rays, 11-12; A. 2 or 3; P. 16 or 18." Dorsal spines remarkable; scales large; grows to a large size; the flank scales of one weighing twenty-eight pounds, measure an inch and a half in length, and an inch and a quarter in breadth. Inhabits rocky shores. The specimen was speared by Warrawar, 12th May, 1841. No. 5.

It is common on all the rocky inlets of the coast of New Holland, extending down the eastern shores to Sidney. No. 41. CHAETODON SEXFASCIUTUS. Richardson Ann. of Nat. Hist. Native name KNELOCK. Inhabits rocky places. Not common. No. 40. CHAETODON. Native name MITCHEBULLER or METYEBULLAR. Teeth very minute. Inhabits rocky places. Speared by Warrawar, on the 27th of May, 1841. No. 27.2.