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1923.] Local Names of Fishes. 107 
respectively. In the South Kanara District it goes by the name 
‘Kal mura’ (Kal means ‘ stone’ and mura probably ‘ fish ’) i.e. 
stone fish; in Tulu also it is called Kal mura.’’.- In the name 
Pandi Pakke probably reference is made to the proboscis on the 
ae W see looks very much like the snout of a pig. 
cording to Mr. . Narayan Rao, to whom I a 
het tor the infor mation, “ Garra is known in Mysore to the 
fishermen as “ Rathi Koraka (Telugu), “ Kal Meenu ” (Kannada, 
i.e. Canarese) and in Coorg “‘ Handi Kurlu ”’ (Canarese). 
Rathi = Kal= stone. 
5 seine = sucker. 
Mee ¥= fish or Carp. 
Handi 
ig. 
Kurlu= = sorrupt.” 
For the name Korafi-Koali mentioned by Day as cur- 
rent in Mysore Mr. Rao gives the following explanation: 
oravai = Koravan=thief; from the habit of the fish slowly 
approaching the surface and then suddenly darting to catch 
air—then as suddenly disappearing below This name is also 
applied to Ophiocephalus punctatus. Koali (Tamil) —corruption 
-olai—referring to the inedible nature of the eggs of the 
fish. Koali is the name of Rasbora daniconius also. 
n the Khasi Hills the species of Garra are known under 
thre appropriate names, viz. Sherdong, Usher-keu and Udoh- 
er In the first two names a reference is made to the 
habit of the fish, while the third means ‘**double-nosed fish’ 
to climb up r corked in rapid water in shoals, and cies the 
Khasi name U sher- keu, for keu means“ to climb up” and usher, 
a fis - 
e Inthas of the Southern Shan States (Burma) living in 
the peat of the Inlé Lake know Garra as the * post- 
posts standing in’ water as much as ten or twelve feet deep. 
Dr. Annandale! describing the habit of G. gravelyi in the Inlé 
ake, says : ‘* We lived for some time in a house of the kind more 
than a mile from shore in the Inlé Lake, and it was possible to 
watch the ascent of the house posts by the fish, which was 
Se er eae 
Is 
| Ann co Rec. Ind. Mus., XIV, p. 45 (1918); for other detai 
ahout Inlé Lake see —— Bombay Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc., XXVIII, 
pp, 1038-\0ad. 3 pls. ( 
