Chapt. XI. 



The salmon-like Chanos. 



141 



is very firm, and 'some 70 years ago it was selected for 



praise by Buchanan, and it runs up to 20 or 30 pounds 

 Mesoprion rulellus. * n weight. If it he a fresh water fish, 

 it is very worthy of introduction into 

 the adjoining and other rivers. The 

 water in which it now lives is very 

 slightly brackish, and is tenanted in 

 common by several predatory estuary 

 fish, which would seem to have found 



their way in when the sluice, connecting the pond with the 



back water, fell out of repair. 



Carcmx melanoste- 

 thos. 



Alausa scombrina. 



Chrysophrys cala- 

 mara. 



Also a Mugil either 

 cunnesius or appa- 

 rently subviridis. 



103. This fish 



Vol. III. Page 105. 



"Col. Williamson in- 

 formed me that at no 

 "great distance there 

 "was a. tank of fresh 

 "water in which was 

 "a kind of fish that the 

 "Sultan reserved for 

 "his own nse, and 

 "which by the natives 

 "was named Huminu, 

 "or the flower fish. It 

 "is a large fish full of 

 "blood, and very fat, 

 "but it is only fit for 

 "use when salted. For 

 "this purpose it is 

 "excellent, a circum- 



has obtained a wide celebrity from 

 a mention made of it by Francis 

 Buchanan, m. d., p. e. s., &c, in his 

 work entitled "A Journey from Madras 

 "through the Countries of Mysore, 

 "Canara, and Malabar," and a pisci- 

 culturist in the Mauritius appears 

 to have thereon meditated introduc- 

 ing it into that island. The manner 

 of its capture is singular. Ordinary 

 drag nets are connected till they are 

 together long enough to stretch right 

 across the pond; but not a single fish 

 of this description is by any chance 

 ever caught in this net; its sole use 



