302 ICHTHYOLOGY. 



cocKur. 



A fish which Europeans in India call cockup, is 

 very common on the coast, and often ascends the large 

 rivers a long distance. Crawfurd found it a hundred and 

 twenty miles from the sea, in the Irrawaddy, and charac- 

 terizes it as " one of the best Indian fishes." It resem- 

 bles the basse, or wrasse, and I know it from examina- 

 tion to be of the genus lates, and I have good reason to 

 believe it is L. nobilis, though I am unable to speak with 

 certainty, for the want of books which describe that spe- 

 cies.* 



Latcs nobiliz ? 



SILAGO. 



A salt-water fish less than a foot in length, with the first 

 ray of the two dorsal fins very long, is seen occasionally in 

 baznr. It belongs to Cuvier's genus silago, and Mr. Blyth, 

 to whom I sent a specimen, said it was 

 Silago acuta. 

 choGcgu 



BAND-FISH. 



At the fishing villages on the sea-coast I have noticed 

 a species of chaetodon, or band-fish. 

 Choetodon. 



ELEPHANT-EAR FISH. 



A fish of the chaetodon tribe, which the natives call 

 " elephant's ear, " from its shape, is found in great abun- 

 dance on the Tavoy coast. It resembles 

 Pomacentrus marginatus. 



cHgao6^o8i esj^QinD. pD5ooa8^« 



. Crawfurd gives Cais vacti as the systematic name of cockup, but that is a spe- 

 cies of India whiting, and I have the authority of Dr. M'Cleiland for appropriating 

 the name to L. nobilis. 



