Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 42

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FISH
 
1 John Dory
2 Mullett
3 Flat Head
4 Rock Cod
5 Gurnett
6 Trevailli or Cavallia
7 Snapper
8 Groper
9 Parrot Fish
10 Unicorn Fish or Leather Jacket
11 Salmon
12 Barracouta
13 Leopard Shark

The Rivers and Coasts of this Country abound with Fish, the most of them of excellent Quality, and numbers of same Species of them of England, the Drawings here given describe such as are not known at home or are dissimilar, the bearing the same name.
The Snapper in size and quality takes the lead and may be classed as the Cod of the Country with regard to its flavour. The Salmon is totally unlike the fish generally so named neither is it so delicious tho [sic] very good. The Groper and Flat Head are capital in Soup. The remainder are all excellent for frying [indecipherable] [indecipherable] the Mullett is by for the best. 
The fish called the Leather Jacket by the State of New South Wales on account of its strong skin which comes off like a Glove, when first Caught possesses some of the most beautiful [indecipherable] and hues imaginable, the Remarkable horn on the head is barbed and is its Weapon of Defence: The Skin of the Leopard Shark is very handsome but in other respects it is rather a disgusting object. 
Native Names

No. 1. Bulgl Ridgi Wangi
2. Warringing
3. Wallangara
4. Magong
5. Kingill
6. Burranyim
7. Kurrangang
8. Kunalgal
9. Bollowoollo
10. Yuaginyang
11. Woodybaw
12. Koollamboung
13. Wan bi suno