"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.