ON SOME OF THE FISHES OP THE DEOCAN. 565 



Whether Trout will permanently succeed in Ilindoostan, has 

 has yet to be ascertained. None of the Salmonidc-B have been dis- 

 covered south of the Hindoo Koosh, whence Griffith brought 

 specimens. 



I may here mention that, having received the collection of 

 fish made by the late Dr. Stoliczka in the recent expedition to 

 Tarkand, I do not find a single specimen of Salmonidae contained 

 therein; one Siluroid, and the rest Cyprinidse, comprise the 

 whole. 



On some of the Fishes of the Deccan. 

 By Francis Day, Surgeon-Major, F.L.S. 



[Read April 6, 1876.] 



Having received from Dr. A. F. Dobson, of the Madras Medical 

 Service, about 170 fishes collected from the Kistna and its tribu- 

 taries near the ISTizam's station of Hingoiie, in the Deccan, as well 

 as a few others from a tank near Bellary, I have thought it 

 might be worth while to offer a few remarks under the above 

 heading. 



It is now nearly forty years since Colonel Sykes's paper* on 

 " the Fishes of the Dukhun " appeared in the 'Transactions of 

 the Zoological Society,' in which the author alluded to forty- 

 six species, remarking that no less than forty-two were new to 

 science. 



Dr. Bleeker, in his paper " Beng. en Hind.," gives a list of these 

 fishes, and places them in the genera to which he then considered 

 they belonged. Jerdon (M. J. L. & Sc.) also remarked on a few, 

 expressing his regret that Valenciennes, in the grand ' Histoire 

 Naturelle des Poissons,' had omitted all reference to Col. Sykes's 



paper. 



Dr. Giinther, in the ' Catalogue of Fishes in the British Mu- 

 seum,' thus disposes of Sykes's forty-two new species :— six new, 

 eleven previously known, twenty doubtful or omitted, five the 

 genus doubtful. 



The only record which I have yet discovered at the India Office 



respecting Sykes's collection is the following note of presentation : 



— " July 15th, 1831. Fish, insects, and reptiles in spirit 117 ;" 



also "drawings of fish twenty-nine," which being one more than 



* Paper read Nov. 27. 1838. 



