It is somewhatdifficult to distinguish the fish from its close relation theBlack-Bream, Chrysophrys australis, Gunth. a not unusual contraction of Government service, used by contractors and working men. 39,Smintheus is an epithet of Apollo. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p.
Gould enumerated the species, nearly fifty years ago, in his`Birds of Australia' (vol. 74: We could shy up our caps for a feller, As soon as he struck the lead. tranquilla, Gould. Shillinglaw, 1879, Melbourne, p.
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