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merely content himself with specimens, he has also executed 

 excellent drawings of these new species, in which the colours 

 and living forms are satisfactorily represented. This has 

 proved the more fortunate, as some of the most interesting 

 of these peculiar specimens have not yet reached Calcutta, 

 having been accidentally left behind with the Ornithological 

 portion of the collections. 



The following is the list of drawings here alluded to, 

 which Mr. Griffith has left in my possession : — 

 Oreinus maculosus. 

 Oreinus Griffithii. 

 Oreinus plagiostomus. 

 Schizothorax Edeniana. 

 Racoma labiata. 

 Racoma Chrysochlora. 

 Racoma nobilis. 

 Opsarius gracilis. 

 Opsarius bicciratus. 

 Barbus progeneis. 

 Barbus hexastichus. 

 Barbus spilopholus. 

 Salmo orientalis. 

 The above are all large sized coloured drawings, with the 

 structure of the mouth, intestines, and such parts as re- 

 quired particular illustration, fully represented. In addition 

 to these, we have outline figures of the Barbel of the Bamean 

 river, (Racoma gobioides,) with the form of its intestines 

 magnified ; the same of a species of Bangon, and of a Systo- 

 mus found at Peshawur, together with sketches of the 

 intestines of various species of Pimelodus. 



The absence of all species of the Salmons from India and 

 the Himalaya, has already been noticed as a curious fact. That 

 extensive family is characteristic of temperate climates, and it 

 was naturally expected, that at certain altitudes in the Hima- 

 laya some of its numerous forms might be found. Such is not 



