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Show 744 SURGEON F. DAY ON BUCHANAN'S [NOV. 18, Having obtained leave to examine these volumes, I found the ichthyological papers to contain six lists of fishes* as follows:- Dinajpur 64 species, Ronggopur 126, Puraniya 134, Goruckpur 79, Bhagulpur 76, and Behar 62. The above lists and the manuscript drawings at Calcutta are evidently those to which Dr. Hare alludes when he observes (July 27th, 1816), whilst requesting the Government to detain them in India, " now I apprehend that those drawings are already the property of the Honourable Court; the service for which Dr. Buchanan was employed and paid having specifically been the furnishing Government with a knowledge of the animal and vegetable productions of this country, delineations are essentially included in this service." It has been well known for many years that Hamilton Buchanan was not in possession of all his ichthyological drawings when he published the ' Fishes of the Ganges.' But although it has been observed that he was deprived of all his extensive drawings and papers relating to every branch of natural history, I was quite unprepared to discover that his manuscript notes on fishes, which have now lain upwards of sixty years in the Government Archives, contain many remarks and much information not existing in his work. These papers, in fact, form the key to the unpublished drawings; and several errors in the ' Fishes of the Ganges' may now be corrected from the author's own notes. I had proposed replying to Dr. Giinther's positive denials of the correctness of some of my identifications of Dr. Buchanan's fishes ; but perhaps it is as well to allow the author himself to decide the points in discussion, as the species come in this review. LABEO CURCHIUS. Cyprinus curchius, cursa, cursis, et gonius. "101. The Kurchha of Goyalpara, by people of Assam is called Ghoni" (Ronggopur list). " 56. The Kurchha of the Ronggopur list. No. 101, is called Kiirsa, evidently the same name" (Behar list). "59. The Kurchha of Ronggopur, No. 101, is here called Kursi; and it must be observed that the names Kurchha, Kurchi, and Kursi are all the same, variously spelt and pronounced in different places, and applied with little or no discrimination to several fishes that have a very strong resemblance to each other." CYPRINUS REBA, Ham. Buch. Cyprinus bangon. "52. The Bhanggon of Ronggopur, No. 95, is here called Buckti" (Goruckpur list). "95. The Bhanggon of Goyalpara in the marshes between Dewangunj and Goraghat is called Vacha, which at Goyalpara, Calcutta, &c. is a name given to a Pimelode, No. 55. At Calcutta the Cyprin of which I am now treating is called Bata. * ' Buchanan's Fish and Fisheries of Bengal' will immediately be ready for the press ; his remarks on these subjects will be published in full. |