No. 4 (1920) THE FISHERIES OF THE NILGIRIS 143 



The sections I name as follows : — 



(i) Pykara or Upper Moyar— Comprising the river from the 

 source to the big " Pykara Falls." 



(ii) Middle section of Moyar — From below these falls (where 

 the river takes the name of Moyar) to beyond Teppakadu where it 

 has a sheer fall into the Mysore Ditch. 



(iii) Lower Moyar — From the beginning of the Mysore 

 Ditch to where the river joins the Bhavani. 



Section I.— Pykara or Upper Moyar. 



Temperature. 



High reaches just below Mukurty Peak, 56° Fahr. II— 15 a.m. sun. 



57° ., 12-30 a.m. „ 

 Below junction of small tributaries ... 58 „ no a.m. „ 



Junction of Krurmund 60 ' ,, 10-45 a.m. misty. 



Island pool 63 „ 2-15 p.m. 



The river rises close to Mukurty Peak and is joined towards the 

 foot by another large tributary. Both the streams flow over a rocky 

 bed with pools, occasional gravel deposits, and shade in places. 



Below this several small tributaries join, and the main stream 

 passing over rocky, sandy and gravel beds enters flat country 

 where at this time (March) of year it consists of very shallow 

 stretches and sluggish deep pools. A useful tributary enters called 

 Mudimund stream with a temperature at 8-30 a.m. of 54 degrees 

 Fahr. Below this the river passes over a small bed rock fall where 

 it is joined by the Krurmund. From here downwards there are 

 long sandy pools with gravel and rocky runs between. Below 

 Pykara bungalow, there are considerable falls in the bed rock 

 bottom, but not sufficient to prevent fish ascending in flood times. 

 There are deep sandy pools and similar runs to those described 

 above until it reaches the big Pykara Falls. 



Carp. — Carp were introduced into this section from a river below 

 Nadgani in Malabar some years ago and have thrived and bred to 

 a large extent. 



These Malabar carp seem to have distributed themselves over 

 the greater part of this section. The highest point I observed then 

 was in the sluggish pools of the flat country stretch above the 

 entrance of the Krurmund river. 

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