222 INDIAN CYPRINID^. 



something on which the natural arrangement of fishes might be founded. 

 In those Carps whose mouths are constructed for the collection of vegetable 



Holocentrus ? Kalkaya, B. MS. two figures name changed to ' Pterapon Trivittatus'. Cottus 

 chaka, B. MS. name changed to ' Platycephalus chacca', marked ' Natural size'. Checlodipterus 

 Bhutibue, B. MS. name changed to ' Checlodipterus Butis', and the species referred to ' Hamilton', 

 but nothing said of the source of the two figures. Cyprinus morar B. MS. two figures and Cyprinus 

 gora, B. MS. forming an entire folio plate, the name of the latter changed to ' Cyprinus cora.' 

 Clupanadon chapra, B. MS. pirated figure called ' Alosa chapra N. Indian Ocean', what the latter 

 terms mean I cannot say, as the figure is from Buchanan's unpublished drawings of Gangetic species ; 

 like the remark ' natural size', annexed to Cottus chaka, it is certainly calculated to impress the reader 

 with the belief that the author had seen the specimens from which the drawings were made. 

 Neither of the remarks in question appear on the original drawings, which are characterised in 

 Buchanan's hand writing. 



Buchanan died in 1829. The work to which so much of his labour has been transferred was 

 published in 1833, and although no descriptions of the plates have yet appeared, it is no excuse 

 for having suppressed the source from whence so many of them at least were derived, especially, 

 when it was thought necessary to acknowledge the source of other figures in the same work. 

 These circumstances induced me to visit the Botanic Garden, with a view of ascertaining if 

 all the other plates in Hardwicke's Illustrations, as well as those of fishes, were derived 

 from the two folio volumes stated to be in the Library of that Institution. The following memo- 

 randum which was made on the occasion, must be interesting to all who are in any way connected 

 with zoological pursuits. 



" Botanic Garden, 3d September, 1838. Having obtained the requisite permission, I inspected 

 Buchanan's Zoological MSS., for the first time they seem to contain descriptions and figures of 

 the following animals : — 



" Five species of Simia, one recently described by Dr. Harlan, in the American Phil : Transac : 

 as Simia Hoolook. 



" Five species of i^e/m<e, one gray above andspotted beneath, and a Felisleopardus albus, an Ursus. 



" Six Cervidce ; a Cervus niger, Buch. Several species of Miis, two bearing Buchanan's specific 

 names, also an Ichneumon and a Hysterix opeigura, Buch. three species of Capra bearing his specific 

 names,as well several species ofTortoises, two species of flying Foxes, two Lacer/o?, and two Paradoxuri. 



