2 MR. F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF COCHIN. (Jan. 10, 
September, 1864. General colour reddish brown. Under neck and 
fore thighs covered with rather long dusky brown hair. Hair of 
neck, chiefly on its back part, and down part of the back list, long 
and shaggy. List black between the shoulders, fading towards the 
tail. Inner portion of hind thighs, inside hair of ears, a large spot 
on the outer portion of back of ear near its root, rim round the eye, 
chin, and throat white. Body ornamented with large spots of white. 
Tail, including apical hair, nearly one foot long. The hair that over- 
hangs the roots of the tail on either side black ; basal half of tail 
white ; apical half black, with white tips ; under the tail and between 
the hams white. Knees and front of tibie brown. Head, from 
crown to tip of nose, about 20 inches long; ear about 9 inches. 
Forehead and before the eyes reddish; rest of face brownish fawn- 
colour. Horns with frontal tine about 5 inches long, bent a little 
downwards at the tip; about 8 inches in the stem between lowest 
tine and the next above, which are broken and represented only by 
a knob ; top stem between that and the top knob about 4 inches. 
« This is the finest species of the Spotted Deer I have seen. Besides 
being much larger than the C. taévanus of Formosa, it is at once to 
be distinguished by the much greater proportion of white in the tail 
and hind parts, and by the faintness of the dorsal list ; but doubtless 
many other more considerable distinctive characters will be found to 
exist on a careful comparison of the two species. With C. stka it 
has much less in common ; and this bears out the opinion I advanced 
as to the greater probability of the fauna of Formosa having been 
derived from the Chinese main rather than from the Japanese islands. 
But it is curious that at the present day, south of the Yangtsze River, 
the only Spotted Deer known to exist is what I take to be the true 
Cervus axis, some of which from Hankow I saw captive in Hongkong, 
and reported on in a former letter.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On THE FisHes or CocHIN, ON THE MALABAR COAST OF 
Inp1a. By Surceon F, Day, F.Z.S., F.L.S., erc., Mapras 
ARMY. 
Part I. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
During a few years’ residence at Cochin, on the Malabar or western 
coast of India, whilst inquiring into the fauna, I made a collection 
of fresh- and salt-water fish, a short account of which I beg to 
offer for the consideration of this Society. My catalogue (for it is 
searcely more) will only contain such species as I have been able to 
bring with safety to this country ; for many specimens, I regret to 
say, have been either mislaid or destroyed. 
As my purpose is simply to enumerate fishes of Cochin, the 
periods of the year at which they arrive, and the uses or abuses to 
which they are put, I shall take Dr. Giinther’s most valuable cata- 
logue as my text-book, adhere to his arrangement, and as closely as 
