432 MUGILID.E. 



This is the " Bouri " («^y) of the lakes of the Delta and the Nile. Other names 

 recorded by Mr. Loat are : — " Hut " (cl^*-), for females full of roe, in the lakes of the 

 Delta ; " lebt " (c^oJ), for males in breeding condition, in Lakes Menzaleh and 

 Mareotis ; " did ma " (<uU-), for males in breeding condition, a name used by the 

 fishermen of Lake Borollos, instead of u lebt " ; Ci el metfze" (s}k*il) is a name sometimes 

 used by the fishermen of Lake Menzaleh to denote a " spent " female ; " lean boot " 

 (ei;^), for small individuals in Lakes Menzaleh and Edkou. 



Mr. Loat also observes that " it is the most abundant of the three species of Grey 

 Mullet found in the Lakes, chiefly in Lakes Menzaleh and Borollos. In Lakes Edkou 

 and Mareotis it is much less abundant, and very rarely taken containing roe in the 

 latter. In the Nile I have only caught it at Samannud, but it is taken at Cairo in 

 small numbers in the summer." 



2. MUGIL CAPITO. 

 (Plate LXXX. fig. 2 and Plate LXXXI. fig. I.) 



Cuvier, Regne Anim. 2nd ed.ii. p. 232 (1829) ; Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., Pesc. (1834); Cuvier 

 & Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss. xi. p. 36, pi. cccviii. (1836) ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 200, fig, 

 (1836) ; Guichenot, Explor. Alg., Poiss. p. 67 (1850) ; Nilsson, Skand. Faun. iv. p. 176 

 (1855) ; Giinther, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) vii. 1861, p. 346, and Cat. Fish. iii. p. 439 (1861) ; 

 Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 248, fig. (1866) ; Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lvii. i. 1868, 

 p. 680 ; Giinther, Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 210 (1869) ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 188 (1881) ; 

 Lilljeborg, Sver. Norg. Fisk. i. p. 408 (1884) ; Day, Brit. Fish. p. 230, pi. xlvi. (1881) ; 

 Lortet, Arch. Mus. Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 131, pi. x. fig. 2 ; Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 339, fig. 

 (1893) ; Boulenger, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 355 (1901). 



Mugil cephalus (non Linnaeus), Donovan, Brit. Fish. i. pi. xv. (1802). 



Mugil cephalus, var. A, Bisso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 344 (1810). 



Mugil ramada, Bisso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 390 (1826). 



Mugil britannicus, Hancock, Lond. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. 



Mugil dubalira, Cuvier & Valenciennes, t. c. p. 60. 



Mugil octoradiatus, Giinther, Cat. iii. p. 437 (part.) ; Lortet, t. c. p. 133, pi. xi. fig. 2. 



Mugil p ether ici, Giinther, t. c. p. 441, and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 211. 



Mugil curtus (non Yarrell), Lortet, t. c. p. 132, pi. xi. fig. 1. 



Mugil auratus (non Risso), Lortet, t. c. p. 134, pi. xi. fig. 3. 



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

 fourth (young) to four and a half times. Snout as long as the eye in the adult, shorter 

 in the young ; eye perfectly lateral in the young, better visible from below than from 

 above in the adult, with a mere rudiment of adipose lid, its diameter three (young) to 

 five times in the length of the head, once to twice and one-third in the interorbital 

 width; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse angle; maxillary nearly 



