744 SURGEON F. DAY ON BUCHANAN'S [Nov. 18, 



Having obtained leave to examine these volumes, I found the 

 icbthyological papers to contain six lists of fishes* as follows: — 

 Dinajpur 64 species, Ronggopur 12b, Puraniya 134, Goruckpur 79, 

 Bhagulpur 76, and Behar 62. 



The above lists and the manuscript drawings at Calcutta' are evi- 

 dently those to which Dr. Hare alludes when he observes (.July 2 7th, 

 1816), whilst requesting the Government to detain them in India, 

 " now I apprehend that those drawings are already the property of 

 the Honourable Court ; the service for which Dr. Buchanan was 

 employed and paid having specifically been the furnishing Go- 

 vernment with a knowledge of the animal and vegetable produc- 

 tions of this country, delineations are essentially included in this 

 service." * 



It has been well known for many years that Hamilton Buchanan 

 was not in possession of all his ichthyological drawings when he pub- 

 lished the * Fishes of the Ganges.' But although it has been ob- 

 served that he was deprived of all his extensive drawings and papers 

 relating to every branch of natural history, I was quite unpre- 

 pared to discover that his manuscript notes on fishes, which have 

 now lain upwards of sixty years in the Government Archives, con- 

 tain many remarks and much information not existing in his work. 



These papers, in fact, form the key to the unpublished drawings ; 

 and several errors in the ' Fishes of the Ganges ' may now be cor- 

 rected from the author's own notes. I had proposed replying to 

 Dr. Giinther's positive denials of the correctness of some of my 

 identifications of Dr. Buchanan's fishes ; but perhaps it is as well to 

 allow the author himself to decide the points in discussion, as the 

 species come in this review. 



Labeo curchius. 



Cyprinus curchius, cursa, cursis, et gonitis. 



"101. The Kurchha of Goyalpara, by people of Assam is called 

 Ghoni" (Ronggopur list). "56. The Kurchha of the Ronggopur list, 

 No. 101, is called Kursa, evidently the same name" (Behar list). "59. 

 The Kurchha of Ronggopur, No. 101, is here called Kursi; and it 

 must be observed that the names Kurchha, Kurchi, and Kursi are all 

 the same, variously spelt and pronounced in different places, and 

 applied with little or no discrimination to several fishes that have a 

 very strong resemblance to each other." 



Cyprinus reba, Ham. Buch. 



Cyprinus banyon. 



"52. The Bhanggon of Ronggopur, No. 95, is here called Buckti " 

 (Goruckpur list). "95. The Bhanggon of Goyalpara in the 

 marshes between Dewangunj and Goraghat is called Vacha, which 

 at Goyalpara, Calcutta, &c. is a name given to a Pimelode, No. 55. 

 At Calcutta the Cyprin of which I am now treating is called Bata. 



* ' Buchanan's Fish and Fisheries of Bengal ' will immediately be ready for 

 the press ; his remarks on these subjects will be published in full. 



