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NOTICE OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH. 



" I subjoin a list given me by a fisherman at Shikarpore, with his 

 divisions into large and small : — 



Large. 

 Dhumpurra, 

 Buree Phookee, 

 Buree Thaillee, 

 Mhoarrhee, 

 Mookkur, 

 Gundhan, 

 Singaree, 

 * Pulla, 



These lists may be of 

 some small use compared 

 with Burnes's collection. 

 To a certain extent they 

 may be useful as showing 

 the preponderance, etc. of 

 certain forms. You may 

 rely on my distinctions be- 

 tweenCyprinidae, Siluridae, 

 and Percidoe. 



Small. 

 Ghunghut, 

 Pedir, 

 Soonnee, 

 Phokee, 

 Mogullee, 

 Dhimmur, 

 Ghoagar, 

 Khuggur, 

 Seenra, 

 Mhorr, 

 Bhangun, 

 Ghurr, 

 Soourr, 

 Morakee, 

 Tupree, 

 Ghogee, 

 Phopree, 

 Thaillee, 

 * Pulla, 

 Punnotee, 

 Dhaiee, 

 Ghogura, 



I send this list as all the specimens 

 are not lost, and some are among the 

 plants. Most of the species are, I 

 think, distinct, and when they have 

 appeared to me not to be so, i have 

 generally noted it on the spot. 



The mountain forms are very distinct, 

 the mouth being under the snout, 

 or head, the intestines long, perito- 

 neum covered with a black pigment. 

 These forms commence at Dadur, 

 8UU feet above the sea: this stream 

 abounds in rapids. 



Gurmab is J,lUU feet. 



Quettah, 5.6U0 feet. 



Lora river, 3,6 feet. 



Urghundab, 3,6UU feet. 



" To-morrow I will send the other list of specimens No. 3, which 

 will I hope reach you ; of all the fish in these parts, the Sir-i- 

 Chushme and Cabul river Oreinus travels farthest up. I have caught 

 it at nearly 1 1 ,000 feet in the Helmund river. Then come loaches, 

 and the beautiful trout-like Opsarion ; other Cyprinidse ascend 2,000 

 or 3,000 feet, the Mahaseer scarcely more. Above that, come the 

 genuine mountain forms. 



Family. 



Cyprinidse, Orei- 

 nus ? 

 Cyprinidae, 



Loach, 



Perilamp, .. 



Cyprinidae, moun- 

 tain form, Schi- 

 zothorax. 



Cyprinidae, Poo- 

 teoides, 



Cyprinidae, .. 



Locality, 



Streams from 

 faid-koh, 



So- 



Jallalabad river, 



Remarks. 



A brown fish, with irregular black 

 spots. 



A sombre looking Gudgeon-like fish, 

 back blackish, sides yellowish, 

 punctulate with groups of black- 

 ish spots. 



Colours and patches obscure. 



Usual silvery-bluish hues. 



Colours obscure, scales minute, dor- 

 sal spine very strong. 



A stout fish, of obscure colours, each 

 scale with a transverse more or less 

 wavy red line (like the Nepoora 

 of Assam), mouth nepooroid, in- 

 testines very long, very thin, very 

 frangible, packed in longish folds, 

 Peritoneum covered with a black 

 pigment. Herbiv. 



