214 Fishing in Estum < 'hut. xvii 



Family. Percid.*. 



Lutiamts roseus. B vii, D fj, P- 16, V. 1/5, A. J, C. 17, L.l. 48, 

 L.v. U, L.tr. 7/18. 



There is another fish (Chrysophryu herda), and called Yeri in 

 ( lanarese, that may be caught in company with Lutianns roseus. 

 A prawn lias been recommended as a bait. 



Megalops Cyprinoides. 



Mi golo ps cyprinoides, which it is as easy to call Megalops as 

 anything else, also takes a bait well at times. I have come across 

 them coming up an estuary in a shoal, and it was like hauling in 

 Mackerel ; and they run about the same size. There was a fish on as 

 fast as ever you could get your line into the water. But the fun 

 was very short-lived. It was in mid stream, and they were all 

 past the boat in a very little time. I am told they, as well as an 

 Slops sawrus, have been caught in the Madras Fort ditch with a 

 white fly. My fishing for them was with a small dead-bait. I 

 should think a prawn used like a fly very slowly would suit them 

 to a nicety. They acclimatize very readily to fresh water, and 

 grow fast, as I know, and breed, as I am told, in ponds. But they 

 must be very destructive of the fry of other fish. It is not a 

 prudent thing, therefore, to put them into any pond in which you 

 wish to breed fish. But natives are Eond of keeping them in 

 ponds, and in a Fori ditch or any place into which predacious fish 

 have already got it may be added without injury. Plate XXIII 

 will help you to recognize it. 



Order. Phvsostomi. 



Megalops cyprinoides. B xxiv-xxw. I). 19-21 (tt-'t? )> f- 15-10, 

 V. 10, A. 24-27 (■..,,?*-*) C. 19, L.l. 37-42, L.tr. 5-6/6. 



Pwvnihov/u and Naharu, Ooriah ; Cwrmay, Mai.; Moran < 

 Tarn. Nga-tan-youet, liurmese. 



The Seek. 



If you try the same tactics at, or close to, the mouth oi a 

 river, as have been recommended for Bamln, you may get the Seer 

 fish, which is a splendid fellow, t do not think they ever r<:uir 

 far into a river [ndeed, I am pretty sure they do not 1 



