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Freshwater Sh a 1 7 3. 



Chapt. xiii. 



ejected it as fish will, in the effort to get rid of the hook, while 

 being played. As it is probably the largest fish yet caught with 

 a rod and line, I must present a plate giving a side view of it. 

 Plate XVIII. The Plate is copied from Dr. Day's work. 

 The Punjab name seems to be Goonch. 





Si i.im u. i Gaxgetica. 



The same sportsmen mention in the "Asian" of the 8th of 

 June, 1880, having caught another large Siluroid at the same 

 place, Okhla, near Delhi, while spinning a tin minnow : " It was 

 " very game and fought splendidly, making one magnificent rush 

 " of over 80 yards, ami being gaffed cleverly by a friend after 

 " about three-quarters of an hour's anxious play, and before it was 

 "quite done up." It weighed 42 lbs. ami was 39 inches long 

 without, and 47 with the tail. The native name is given as 

 Sinnun. Day says it attains to G feet or more in length, and is 



