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Show 1870.] SURGEON F. DAY ON ANDAMAN-ISLAND FISHES. 701 210. CLUPEA NEOHOWII, C. & V. This species of Sardine existed in abundance at the Andamans; and on sending out four convicts at Port Mouat with cast-nets to obtain them, they captured 260 lb. weight in four hours, and then had to return, as their boats could hold no more. They asserted they could continue fishing at this rate for months, had they a market for their captures. I tried making oil from these Sardines, but did not succeed ; the reason of which I discovered subsequently at Calicut, on the Malabar coast. There the oil is prepared after the breeding-season of these fishes (namely June and July), subsequent to which period they become fat, and about August are suited for the manufacture of oil, and continue so for four months. Unless the livers are fat, no oil can be made ; and it is either prepared from that gland alone or from the entire fish*. 211. CLUPEA MELANURA, C. & V. I found this species pretty abundant, but not so much so as the last; they seem to prefer more sheltered localities. 212. PELLONA DITCHOA, C. & V. Poo-nd-no-dah, And. 213. DUSSUMTERIA ACUTA, C. & V. O-pul-lah, And. 214. DUSSUMIERIA ELOPSOIDES, Blkr. 215. ELOPS SAURUS, Linn. 216. MEGALOPS CYPRINOIDES, Brouss. O-pul-dah, And. Family MURJENID^E. 217. ANGUILLA LABIATA, Ptrs. Pa-lug-dah, And. It is remarkable that this species, hitherto recorded from the east coast of Africa, should be found in the Andaman Islands. 218. ANGUILLA BICOLOR, M'Clell. In possessing this East-Indian species, the Andamans show their similarity to the continent of Hindoostan and the Burmese territory. 219.' ANGUILLA VIRESCENS, Ptrs. Jee-tah-dah, And. The same remark applies to this East-African species as already made on the A. labiata. 220. MUR^ENESOX TELABON, Cuv. 221. MUR^ENICHTHYS SCHULTZII, Blkr. 222. OPHICHTHYS COLUBRINUS, Bodd. * See my paper on "Turtle- and Fish-oils" (Madras Monthly Journal of Med. Science, April 1870). |