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4 Between Assiut and Aba Tig. — Loat, 1.12.99. 



1 Akhmiin.— Loat, 13.12.99. 



1 Luxor.— Y. Bnrges, 1899. 



14 At regulators near Luxor. — Loat, 8.10-12.11.00. 



205 Mouth of canal joining Nile at Luxor. — Loat, 11.00. 



63 Between Luxor and Assuan. — Loat, 9-10.00. 



22 Near Assuan.— Loat, 30.12.99-4.1.00, 1-12.9.00. 



1 Abu Hor.— Loat, 18.1.00. 



1 Mirrwan.— Loat, 19.1.00. 



2 El Maharraka.— Loat, 24.1.00. 

 1 Anebi.— Loat, 7.2.00. 



1 Abaad.— Loat, 8.2.00. 



2 Abu Simbel.— Loat, 14.2.00. 



4 "Wady Haifa.— Loat, 21-23.2.00. 



5 Kosheh.— Loat, 8-17.3.00. 



6 Khartum. — Petherick, 18G1. 



5 Wad Medine, Blue Nile.— Loat, 8.10.01. 



1 Nur-ed-Daim, White Nile.— Loat, 6.1.01. 



1 Kaka.— Loat, 15.1.01. 



2 GUiarb-el-Aish.— Loat, 17.1.01. 



1 Fashoda, in a kore. — Loat, 14.3.01. 



4 Between Khartum and the Sobat. — Zaphiro, 1904. 

 1 Polkom, Baro R. (Sobat).— Zaphiro, 1904. 



8 Mouth of Lake No.— Loat, 1-15.2.01. 

 1 Gondokoro.— Loat, 19.1.02. 



7 Sagan R. (L. Rudolf), 2800 feet.— Zaphiro, 22.8.05. 



5 Lake Gandjule (Margherita), 3000 feet.— Zaphiro, 8.9.05. 

 1 Lake Stephanie. — Dr. Donaldson Smith, 1895. 



1 Lake Stephanie (?). — Dr. Donaldson Smith, 1895. (Type of S. smithii.) 



1 Lake Chad. — Capt. Gosling, 1905. 



3 St. Louis, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 

 3 Kaedi, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 



1 Senegal. — Old Collection. 



Mr. Loat observes that this fish is very common in most parts of the Nile, and 

 generally caught in the vicinity of the towns, as it will eat filth of any kind. It is 

 easily caught with rod and line, a small piece of paste being used as bait. When 

 picked up it often makes a peculiar creaking noise, produced by quickly moving the 

 pectoral fins backwards and forwards ; the noise is very noticeable when the fish has 

 been hooked. Capt. Flower feeds them, in the Gezira Aquarium, on bread and meat, 

 and he says the spines with which the dorsal and pectoral fins are armed give many bad 

 wounds to men working in the water with bare feet and hands. 



More or less recognizable representations of the common Schall occur in the mural 



