Author: McCoy, F.
Title: Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Decade I [Ichthyology].
Description: Melbourne, Government Printers, 1878. 4to (27.1 x 18.4 cm). Three chromolithographed plates with accompanying text leaves. Disbound. = From the start of one of the most richly illustrated faunal descriptions of Australia. This is the first section on fish, with fine illustrations of Chrysophrys australis (Günther), Lepidotrigla vanessa (Richardson), and Trigla kumu (Cuvier), each with new observations. ADDED from the fourth decade (1879) are two more fish plates and descriptions, viz. of Sebastes percoides (Solander sp.), the banded red gurnet-perch; and Rhina squatina (Lin[n]. sp.), the angler-fish. Disbound, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Dean II, p. 79; Nissen ZBI, 2828.

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