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7 At regulators near Luxor. — Loat, 3-10.11.00. 

 1 Wady Haifa.— Loat, 23.2.00. 



30 Assuan.— Loat, 7.8.-2.10.00. 



5 Khartum.— Petherick, 1862. 



3 Wad Medine, Blue Nile.— Loat, 8-11.11.01. 



1 Rosaires, Blue Nile. — Capt. S. Flower, 6.05. 



3 Lake Victoria. — Sir Harry Johnston, 1900. 



1 Lake Victoria.— C. W. Hobley, 1904. 



8 Entebbe, Lake Victoria.— Degen, 30.8.-6.10.05. 



Kannume is one of the native names of this fish on the Lower Nile according to 

 Forskal, and Bachiqiia (<&£j **•£$) is another according to Rifaud. Both it and 

 M. caschive are confounded under the following names supplied by Mr. Loat : — 

 " Annuma" (UJ!), at Cairo, Samannud, Barrage N. of Cairo; "booez" (j>^)> 

 at Akhmim, Assiut, Girga ; " mizz" (j^), at Beni Souef, in the Fayum; " oom 

 booez " or " oom moo boo'ez " ( y$ & \) is the name sometimes given to these species 

 at Beni Souef; " ashoowd" (*l^c) (ashwd, "nearly blind"), at Kafr-el-Zayat ; " loch 

 gash'oo'wa" ()y2J J), at Assuan (the word " loch" is pronounced like the name " lough," 



lake, as in Ireland); " samaJc-eUmalaJc" (salt-fish) ( Uil viX*^), at Luxor (a great 



many of the fishermen at Luxor were unacquainted with the name) ; " essin hannugar " 

 OV* e/"') (Nubian: hanu, " donkey"; essi, "water"), between Shellal and 

 Korosko ; " ruenta 9 ' (<&Vj ; ), between Korosko and "Wady Haifa; * "boslce" at 

 Haifa ; " hashmel banat " (" mouth of girls ") (cjIuSI *&&-) heard used first at 

 Assuan and again further south; " hasham nahasee" (^U-U +&&~) 9 on the Blue 

 Nile. [Names marked with an asterisk in this and further lists are the Berberine 

 and names offish, not Arabic] 



According to Capt. Flower, this Mormyr is called "Abu boos" by the Cairo 

 fishermen. 



