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DR. GUNTHER ON BARBUS BKAVANJ. 



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Dorsal fin of Barbus beavani. 



c. It is true that the drawing is labelled " C. chagunio. F. G. 

 p. 295;" but the handwriting is of a very modern character, and 

 certainly not that of Hamilton, with which I am acquainted. Indeed 

 the reference to the "Fishes of the Granges" must have been added 

 long after Hamilton's return to Europe. Thus this "labelling" 

 proves nothing. Nor is it in M'Clelland's handwriting, who (as may 

 be seen from his 'Indian Cyprinidae ') used to abbreviate the title of 

 Hamilton's work by P. G., and not by F. G. Further, M'Clelland, 

 who gives a list of the unpublished figures of Cyprinidce in the 

 Hamilton collection (Ind. Cyprin. pp. 220 and 216, errata), mentions 

 this drawing under the name of Cyprinus kunta, referring it as a 

 synonym to C. sarana (p. 340). Mr. Day has omitted to state that 

 there is a second name attached to the drawing, evidently of an older 

 date than the first ; a portion of the specific name has been cut off 

 in binding the drawings. This name is Cyprinus Runt — a name 

 which does not occur in Hamilton's works, out which is evidently 

 the same as kunta. 



I must take this early opportunity to modify a statement made by 

 me in P. Z. S. 1871, p. 763, to the effect that I had failed to 

 discover in the East-India Museum the types of the Dukkun species 

 described by Colonel Sykes. This is true as regards the majority of 

 these fishes ; but at the time I wrote this I had forgotten that in 

 1 864 I believed that I had found two or three of his types. Although 

 not the true names (if any) were attached to the bottles when they 

 were transferred to the Museum, the name of Colonel Sykes was 

 written on the labels, and I still believe the specimens to be typical. 



P.S. — Singularly enough, whilst this paper was passing through 

 the press, I discovered, in a miscellaneous collection of fish-drawings 

 made by Dr. Gray and kindly presented by him to me, a lithogra- 

 phic reproduction of the very drawing which forms the subject of 

 this paper. It is marked in print with the words Ci Buch. del. J. M. 

 lith. ;" and Dr. Gray has added the following words, evidently 



