They are besides ravenously fond of eggs and eat them wherever they find them.

They call the roe of a fish and a bird's egg by one name.
So much has been said of the abundance in which fish are found in the harbours of New South Wales that it looks like detraction to oppose a contradiction.

Some share of knowledge may, however, be supposed to belong to experience.

Many a night have I toiled (in the times of distress) on the public service, from four o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock next morning, hauling the seine in every part of the harbour of Port Jackson: and after a circuit of many miles and between twenty and thirty hauls, seldom more than a hundred pounds of fish were taken.

However, it sometimes happens that a glut enters the harbour, and for a few days they sufficiently abound.