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usually seen in the frst instance swimming out from a thicket 
of weeds. It then settled with its head pointing upwards, 
low down on one of the house-posts and began to move up it 
slowly, browsing as it did so on the smal] algae and polyzyoa 
(Hislopia lacustris) with which the posts were covered. The 
sucker-like structure of the lips enabled it to retain a fairly 
tight hold on the post while it remained still; its ascent was 
effected by gentle almost imperceptible movements of the tail.’ 
At He-Ho, a few miles from the Inlé Lake, where there 
are ie ee for the fish to climb, this same species is known 
one-climbing fish,” nga kayauk- -tet. 
the Darjiling Himalayas! there are two species ot 
ee G. gotyla and G. annandalet. The former possesses 
proboscides on the snout, while in the latter this region is 
smooth. On this morphological difference the two species are 
ee neeusye from each other by the local fishermen and prob- 
y it is to this character that a reference is made in the 
ee names oof species 
_ List +d tile ecoalle names | of yf the Fish oF the genus Garra. 

Locality. Local Name. Meaning of Local Namie. 
| 
. W. Provinces ; cer- | Pathar-chat .. | Pathar= ston chat= 
tain districts of the | lick. Stone fidking ints 
Punjab an the | 
United Provinces. | 
Punjab .. .. | Dhoguru * 
is | Koorka * 2 
Gorakhpur (U.P.) .. | Lamta.. Pe - 
Monghir (Behar)... | Godyari .. se .* 
Gudar .. .. | Cylindrical fish. 
hoak-si * 3 
Bengal .. | Oh e - 
Darjiling Himalayas | Budena = ramen refers to 
roboscis on the snout. 



: a Luhert Fas as 
Khasi Hills (Assam) | Udoh-arkhmut _. | Double-nosed fish. 
” Sher-dong ae _ that eioles round and 
ro man 
99 Usher-keu Revesche K e @ == 60 
“fi a 
climb, rock-climbing fish. 

‘ 
! Tam indebted to Mr. G. E. Shaw for the following fatortiabbot ° — 
In the Darjiling Himalayas Garra gotyla is called Budena and G. 
annandalet is named Luheri. ‘‘ But no one here seems to know what 
the names mean or why they are so called.” 
2 Mr. Donald of the Punjab Fisheries has soy me me that fisher- 
men of ie peprs District ‘* can give no reason for, or ce of the 
or 

Kangra valley. 
5 I have not been able to find any suitable explanation for Choak-st 
This name is not known to most of the Bengalis living in Calcutta, nor 
have I been able to find its meanin 
* The local names marked with an asterisk (*) are taken from Day- 
