564 On the fresh-water Fishes of India. 



stunted bushes in the Turnuk valley. See a note by 

 Captain Hay, Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



" The Cabul river at Cabul does not present any great 

 variety ; the two most common are a species of Barbus, 

 and one of Oreinus. 



" Towards its origin, and throughout the upper part of the 

 Mydan valley, a species of Oreinus is very abundant, 

 numbers may be taken with a worm, the only instance 

 I know of a fish with a Gonorhynchoid mouth taking 

 bait. This same species swarms in the fine springs 

 (from limestone) at Sir-i-Chushmah, which are the 

 main source of the river : the fish are considered 

 sacred, and appear to eat any thing presented to them ; 

 the size does not exceed 5 lbs. 



" In the small channels by which the springs run off, a 

 Loach is very common. The most remarkable fish 

 however is a dark coloured Loach-like Silurus, which 

 is not uncommon about Julraiz. 



' f Of these three fish, both Oreinus and Loach occur, the 

 former in abundance in the Helmund at Gridun De- 

 war, altitude 10,500 feet. At this place I have known 

 the Oreinus to take a fly with freedom. 



" The late Captain Edw. Connolly shewed me among his 

 Seistan papers, sketches of two fish inhabiting the 

 lower part of the Helmund, of these one was a genuine 

 Cyprinus, the other a Loach. 



" The Cabul river at'Jellalabad present us, in addition to 

 two or three small scaled Barbi and Oreini, with certain 

 tropical forms, such as the Mahasir and a Silurus, 

 very like, if not identical, with the Poftah. 



t( From the same river at Lalpore, altitude — ? I procured 

 a fish I believe identical with the Nepoora of Assam, C. 

 falcatus of Hardwicke, a Barbus, a Gonorhynchus, 

 a small Mahasir, and a remarkable fish, which appears 

 to me the type of types of Carnivorous Pceowmince. 



