78/121 "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. Solander (SCOMBER) Pisees Austr.p. |