HUNTING & SHOOTING IN CEYLON 



remains to find out the best sporting method of catching 

 them. 



The late Mr. levers gives the following list of local fish 

 in his " Manual of the North Central Province " : 



Of the above the wa/eya (I use the Singhalese names as 

 the ones I know best) is a slimy, dull-coloured, eel-like fish 

 with a big head, and mouth with feelers and sharp teeth. 

 It is, I think, a bottom feeder, and is popularly supposed to 

 have no bones. 



Its flesh is excellent until the tanks get low, when it 

 acquires a very muddy taste, as do most of the other fish. 



The ara is own sister to the lula, except that the belly 

 colour of the former is dirty whitey-yellow instead of dirty 

 white as in the latter. Flesh good. 



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