APPENDIX C. 
THE FISHES OF THE NILE. 
Bt De. ALBEET GUNTHEE, E.E.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
rjlHE extensive collections of fishes made by Mr. Petberick on 
tbe Lower and Upper Nile, and deposited in tbe British 
Museum, have induced me to comply with his request to give an 
account of them. Indeed, by so doing I merely fulfil a promise 
made to him several years ago, when, on his return to Egypt, I 
directed his attention to this part of the Fauna. It will he seen 
from the following remarks how much our knowledge of the zoo- 
logy of the Nile has been advanced by his efibrts ; and the British 
Museum may now claim to possess the most complete series of the 
fishes of the Nile. 
But, however gratifying an account of the success of these col- 
lections would have been to those immediately concerned in them, 
I thought it more useful to travellers to the Nile, and to zoologists, 
to take this opportunity of compiling short descriptions’^ of all the 
* Most of these descriptions are taken from my general work on Fishes, “ Cata- 
logue of the Fishes of the British Museum,” Yols. I. — YIII., published by the 
Trustees, 1859-69. Several of the woodcuts are inserted here from the same work, 
with the kind permission of the Trustees. 
