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Teleostii. Greek, teleos, perfect ; osteon, bone. 



Physostomi. Greek, physa, a bladder ; stoma, a mouth ; the swimming 

 bladder communicates with the digestive canal by a duct. 

 Cyprinidas. Latin, cyprinus, a carp. 

 Barbus. Latin, barba, a beard. 



In 1873, tne days of my first edition, our mutual friend the Mahseer 

 had more names than one given him by Cuvier and Valenciennes, by 

 Dr. Hamilton Buchanan, and continued by Dr. Day in his monograph 

 of Indian Cyprinidse. But in Dr. Day's later and great work, " The 

 Fishes of India," published in 1878, the two names Barbus mosal and 

 Barbus tor are clubbed under one, to wit, Barbus tor. I therefore 

 follow the nomenclature of the latest authority on the subject, and 

 subjoin the following complete quotation of Dr. Day's remarks under 

 the species Barbus for, together with his footnote, quoting my book, 

 because it serves to show the dubious that we are talking of the same 

 fish. 



15. Barbus tor, Plate cxxxvi., fig. 5 ; and cxl., fig I.* 



CypriniiS) tor, mosal and putitora ? Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang., pp. 303, 

 306, 388; Gray and Hard. Ind. Zool. ; McClelland, Ind. Cyp., pp. 271, 

 33> 337> 388, pl- xli., f. 3 ; Cuv. and Val. xvi., p. 197 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and 

 S. 1849, P- 3ii. 



Labeobarbus macrolepis, Heckel, Fische aus Kashmir, p. 60, t.x. f. 2 ; 

 Bleeker, Beng., p. 60. 



Barbus progenius and megalepis, McClelland, Ind. Cyp., pp. 270, 271, 

 334, 337 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 1849, P- 3 1 !- 



Barbus macrocephalus, McClell. Ind. Cyp., pp. 270, 335, pl. 55, fig. 2 ; 

 Cuv. and Val. xvi., p. 201 ; Bleeker, Beng., p. 60 ; Giinther, Cat. vii., 

 p. 131 ; Day, Proc. Z. S., 1869, p. 556. 



Barbus mosal, Cuv. and Val. xvi., p. 200 ; Bleeker, Beng., p. 60 ; Day, 

 Proc. Z. S. 1870, p. 372. 



Barbus mussulah, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii., p. 356 ; Bleeker, Beng., 

 p. 60 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 1849, P- 3 r 3 



Barbus Hamiltonit, Jerdon, M. J. L. and Sc. 1849, PP- 3 11 ? 3 12 - 



Labeobarbus tor and progenius, Bleeker, Beng., p. 60, and Cobit, and 

 Cyprin., Ceylon, 1864, p. 10, t. 2. 



Barbus macrolepis, Giinther, Catal. vii., p. 131. 



* ' ' For an account of the natural history of the Mahseer, and the sport it 

 affords, see 'The Rod in India,' by H. S. Thomas ; Mangalore, 1873." 



