REPORT ON FISHES. PART I: COBITIDAE 321 



Botia birdi Chaudhuri 



1909. Botia birdi, Chaudhuri, Rcc. hid. Miis. Ill, p. 339. 

 1922. Both birdi, Hora, Rec. Ind. Mies. XXIV, p. 319. 



The Yale North India Expedition collected a dozen specimens of Botia birdi at Srin- 

 agar during March 1932. The specimens vary from 86 mm. to 138 mm. in tt)tal length. 

 The colour pattern on the body is subject to consideraljle variation. 



In 1922, I assigned Day's B. gcto to the synonymy of B. birdi. but nn an examina- 

 tiiin of the material from the Eastern Himalayas it Ijecame clear that Day's form repre- 

 sented a new .species,'* differing from B. birdi mainly in the nature and form of its head. 



"Hora, Rcc. Ind. Mus. XXXIV, p. 571 (1932). 



