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BONO OF THE WARRAU INDIANS. 



Pomotis ? low. 



PLATE XVIII. 



ARAWAAK, Siballi;* WARB-VW Bono; MACUSI, Misshaw ; L. 

 GERAL, Accara Pishuna. &chomb. Drawings, No. 1 7. 



THIS fish is found in all the rivers of Guiana, and 

 in pools and marshes ; the colour is a hluish black ; 

 it is taken with the hook, and great numbers are 

 killed by the negroes when the trenches on the 

 estates get dry ; they are indifferent food, being dry 

 and bony. The body is compressed ; mouth rather 

 small ; jaws equal, and armed with single rows of 

 fine teeth; the eye is red; opercles scaly, with 

 smooth edges ; nostrils single ; lateral line divided, 

 one part arched running near the back for two- 

 thirds of its length, the other commencing lower 

 and running straight to the middle of the tail ; the 

 tail is a little rounded, scaling large and rough, 

 fringed, and adhesive. Length of the drawing six 

 inches, depth two and a half. 



D. 14/10 P. 13 V. 1/5 A. 3/8 C. 16 Br. 5. 

 * Siballi is the Arawaak name for many species. SCHOMB, 



