HETEEOTIS. 87 



1 Galeba, Lake Rudolf, 1800 f.— Zaphiro, 6.8.05. 



2 St. Louis, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 

 1 Gambia.— Budgett, 1900. 



4 Niger.— Dalton, 1863. 



1 Niger.— W. A. Forbes, 1883. 



2 Assay, Lower Niger. — Budgett, 1903. 



Garafche is the Arabic name of this fish, according to Bifaud ; Biippell says it is 

 named Gischer by the fishermen at Dongola ; " JS T oag" (jflj), at Omdurman, according 

 to Loat. 



P. Delhez has noted that the fish has a strong musky odour. 



Fig. 14. 



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Nest of Heterotis niloticus. (After Budgett.) 



Budgett has made us acquainted with the breeding-habits and larvae of this 

 remarkable fish. His published observations are here reproduced : — 



" In the same swamps [where Gymnarchus was observed], a most striking feature 

 is the presence of numbers of enormous nests, which proved to be those of Heterotis 

 niloticus. These nests measured four feet in diameter, and were made in about two 

 feet of water. In wading through the reed-choked swamp, when one came across one 



