Reports to various Correspondents . 
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EXTRA-BRITISH (pp. Ill to 122). 
GROUP A. 
Animals captured or slaughtered by Man for Food, or for 
the use by him in other ways of their skin, bone, fat, 
or other products. 
Suhleah and Mango Fish (Poly nemus ). 
In response to a request from the Calcutta Museum for any 
additional information for their Report on the “ Chief Indian Animal 
Products and Industries” compiled by the Reporter on Economic 
Products to the Government of India (Dr. George Watts), the 
following information was sent on the Mango Eish : — 
Reference, “ Parbury’s Oriental Herald,” December, 1838, letter 
on the Suleah Fish of Bengal. 
. Polynemus sele, and the isinglass it affords. The letter states that 
this fish attains about four feet in length. Meat coarse, converted, 
when salted, by the natives into “burtah,” a piquant relish well 
known at the breakfast table in Bengal. The bladder may be con- 
sidered the most valuable part ; it varies in weight from ^ to f of a 
pound when dried. This fish abounds in the channel creek off Sangor 
and m the mouths of all the rivers which intersect the Sunderbuns. 
This fish is the Polynemus sele of Hamilton’s “Fishes of the 
Ganges.” An individual weighing two pounds would yield 65 trains 
of pure isinglass. When this was written the price of isinglass in 
India was £l 12s. per pound. 
P. risna. Another species is the “Tupsee” or Mango Fish. The 
name used for this fish by Hamilton, in his “Fishes of°the Ganges ” 
is P. risna— the P. longifilis of Cuvier. Presumably this is the 
P. paradiseus, Day, referred to in the list. 
