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INTRODUCTION.*' 



THE present work is chiefly an abridgment of the author's 

 ' Fishes of India/ published in 1876-78. Several additions 

 and alterations have been made, most of which were pub- 

 lished in 1888, in a Supplement to the work just mentioned. 

 The synonymy, having been already quoted in full, has not 

 been repeated in these volumes, but under each species will 

 be found a reference to the original specific description, and 

 to the page in the ' Fishes of India ' where full details are 

 given. The illustrations in the present work are, with very 

 few exceptions, copies of those in the ' Fishes of India/ 



The state of Dr. Day's health has unfortunately prevented 

 him from correcting the proofs of the present publication 

 beyond the middle of the first volume, and it is probable 

 that some mistakes or omissions may have escaped detection 

 in consequence. The manuscript of the work had been 

 prepared before the author's health gave way; but some 

 additional compression was required, and this the editor 

 Las carried out to the best of his ability. 



The limits of the area of which the freshwater fauna is here 



