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ghaut into the river, hut was soon undeceived hy the general 



shout of ' Raghu,' ' Raghu,' and by the fishes large and small 

 darting away in every direction. Raghu made two or three 

 plunges, hut was so quick in his motions that I was unable to 

 guess at his species"*. In Burma, in the Irrawaddi river, there 

 are fish so tame as to come up to the sides of the boat, and even 

 allow themselves to be handled. The Fakeers of the place call 

 them together, but they are not much disposed to come for mere 

 calling, seeming to require more substantial proof of being wanted 

 in the shape of food ; they are found in still waters in a small 

 bay, which is closed up still more from the influence of the stream 

 by a round island constructed superficially on a rocky base, and 

 on which the pagodas are built. They resemble a good deal the 

 Gooroo mas, a Siluroid of Assam, but have no large teeth as it 

 has (most probably the fish was a Rita). They are very greedy, 

 of a bluish-grey colour, occasionally inclining to red (Griffith, 

 p. 104). Carew, in Cornwall, is said to have called his G-rey 

 Mullet together by making a noise like chopping with a cleaver ; 

 and Sir Joseph Banks collected his fish by means of sounding a 

 bell. 



The manifestations of anger are well described in the accounts 

 we possess of the Fighting Fishes of Siam. After remarking on 

 the cock-fights of that country, Sir J. Browning f adds, there is 

 a little bellicose fish, too, which attacks its fellow with great 

 ferocity, bristling its fins and exhibiting the most intense excite- 

 ment ; one of these, seeing its reflection in a glass, will violently 

 advance head foremost against the shadow. Dr. Cantor + ob- 

 serves, respecting this fish, Macropodus pugnaoc, that when it is in 

 a state of quiet, with the fins at rest, the dull colours present 

 nothing remarkable. But if two are brought within sight of each 

 other, or if one sees its own image in a looking-glass, the little 

 creature becomes suddenly excited, the raised fins and the whole 

 body shine with metallic colours of dazzling beauty, while the 

 projected gill-membranes, waving like a black frill round the 

 throat, add something grotesque to the general appearance. In 

 this state it makes repeated darts at its real or reflected antago- 

 nist ; but both, when taken out of each other's sight, instantly 



* Conolly, " Obs. on past and present Condition of Onjein," J. As. Soc. Beng. 

 vi. p. 820. 



t ' Kingdom and People of Siam,' p. 155. 



| ' Oatal. Malay. Fish.' 1850, p. 87- 



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