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was positive, very positive, that they were trout, and was very slow to 

 believe me when I told him they were tench. It shows that you must 

 know not only the bona fides, but also the scientific knowledge of your 

 informant as to the fish reported to be introduced, especially when fry 

 are spoken of. 



Then Mr. H. P. Hodgson wrote me, in November 1882, that he and 

 Mr. Knox and Mr. Wapshare had, in April 1877, caught below the 

 Pykara falls and put into the river above them 123 Mahseer, the largest 

 being nearly lb., " that they were all fresh, and in good order, and 

 swam away gaily." 



Then I personally put a fair lot of Mahseer and Carnatic Carp fry, 

 healthy and vigorous, into the Ootacamund Lake. Unfortunately I 

 cannot lay my hand on my note of their number, and the date, and will 

 not speak from unassisted memory. Whether they have survived the 

 cold and made any show at all I should much like to know. 



Lastly, the Nilagiri Game Association has, I understand, laudably 

 persevered with the hatching out of trout ova, till they have succeeded 

 in placing out a goodly number of young trout. But I have not heard 

 of any fishing having been yet had out of them. 



The Nilagiri News of 28th September, 1895, reprints Appendix D. 

 of the report for 1894-95 of Major C. J. Grant, Secretary of the 

 Nilagiri Game Association, from which I epitomize the following notes 

 of progress accomplished. 



In 1895, Association ponds being examined, yearling trout were 

 transferred from them, 7 to the Pykara River, 120 to the head waters 

 of the Avelanche River, 46 to the Burnfoot lake. 



In the spring of 1894 the Dodabetta reservoir was netted, and 

 1 6 seven-year-old trout from ij to 7 Ibs. were taken out, and 16 of 

 them transferred to the Burnfoot lake, one of 2 Ibs., which died, being 

 preserved in spirits. 



In the Burnfoot lake there were, at the time of the report, " about 

 60 fine trout." 



The trout placed in the Kundah River in 1888 have bred. "In 

 all the small pools small trout are darting about." Major Grant with a 

 fly took two of three or four ounces, and returned them to the stream. 

 One heavy fish broke him, and he " landed one over a pound, a female 

 full of almost ripe ova." 



The stock pond at Pykara "had 28 yearlings put into it in 



