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1 Wadelai.— Budgett, 7.9.02. 



1 Fajao, Victoria Nile.— Budgett, 25.8.02. 



1 Tsutyaba, Lake Albert.— Budgett, 8.8.02. 



1 Shari P. at Maidugari.— Capt. Gosling, 1904. 



1 St. Louis, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 

 5 Kaedi, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 



2 Mnreji, N. Nigeria.— Budgett, 1903. 

 1 Niger.— W. A. Forbes, 1883. 



Numbers of this and the following fish are brought on the fish-markets, but the flesh 

 is not valued by Europeans. 



This is the well-kown Bayad or Bayada, Baggar or Baggare of the Egyptians *. 

 The following list of names is supplied by Mr. Loat : — " Bayada " (*Aw), " bug gar " 

 or "bug'gara" (ljujsu), " shakarkh" Q-^U), " e'bader" (a-i'ol), "fate'lah bayada" 

 (<tibj jJbli), in Egypt; '* da' show 1 gar" (J^\d) or "essin tegar" (J£ u j^\) 9 between Shellal 

 and Wady Haifa ; " dak 1 show 1 gar" (J^^J^d) or " daslikoalc " (lL^£^) 5 used south of 

 Haifa; "urrislaim" (>jJu J), at Omdurman. 



Specimens have been kept over two years in the Gezira Aquarium f and fed on raw 

 meat; they spend nearly the whole of the daylight hours in the crevices of the 

 rock-work, and are therefore seldom seen. 



2. BAGRUS DOCMAC. 

 (Plate LVIII.) 



Silurus docmak, Forskal, Descr. Anim. p. 65 (1775). 



Silurus bajad (non Forskal), Sonnini, Trav. Egypt, p. 475, pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1800). 



Porcus docmac, I. Greoffroy, Descr. Egypte, Poiss. p. 304, pi. xv. figs. 3 & 4 (1827). 



Bagrus docmac, Ruppell, Beschr. n. Fische Nil, p. 5 (1829) ; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss. 



xiv. p. 404 (1839) ; Giinther, Cat. Fish. v. p. 70 (1864), and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 228 



(1869) ; Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Grenova, (2) xix. 1898, p. 245. 



Depth of body four to five and one-third times in the total length, length of head three 

 and one-fourth to four times. Head much depressed, once and one-fifth to once and 

 three-fifths as long as broad, smooth above ; occipital process long and narrow, in 

 contact with or narrowly separated from the interneural bone ; snout broadly rounded, 



* The late Colonel Grant was probably misinformed when he wrote (Journ. E. Geogr. Soc. xiii. 1872, 

 p. 311) "The Egyptians call cattle ' Bagra,' which, I am told, is the derivation for the generic name 

 [Bagrusy 



f S. Flower, Rep. Zool. Gard. Giza, 1903, p. 43, and 1904, p. 26. 



