d golden sides: takes no bait?
_Chota Raiwah_.--Gobio occurs in shoals--either occupied in busily
turning up its silvery sides against the bottom, or at the surface, above
which it may be seen protruding its head.
_Bhangun_.--Gobio, a handsome fish, not esteemed.
_Potea_.--Systomus, takes bait--worms; affords good sport and reaches to
one seer, but is not esteemed; colours ordinary.
_Systomus_, a beautiful fish, back shining green, sides yellow, scales
beautifully striate, with a spot near the tail; mostly found in still
water.
_Gonorrhynchus_.--Snout rough, colours sombre, belly somewhat
protuberant; found with Systomus. The intestines are of the usual form
of the genus.
Gonorrhynchus, a sombre smaller fish, found in still water.
_Bura Chalwa_.--Much esteemed as food in the districts of the Sutledge.
_Perilampus_.--Intestines shorter than the body, having at the lower end
a short curve; above green, from lateral line downwards silvery.
_Moh_.--A _Siluroid_ fish, does not attain the size of the real Moh,
which is a higher or deeper formed fish.
_Tengrei_.--Silurus platycephalus. Attains a very large size.
_Gudha_.--A Percoid. Colour irregular brown, mouth very protractile.
_Gughal_.--Ophiocephalus, a handsome fish, back rich greenish, mottled
brown, with 3 or 4 black spots on the sides, which are yellow, passing
off into white, and a peacock spot on the tail. Fins spotted with white:
it reaches a large size.
_Bham_.--Macrognathus, body eel-shaped, with a row of movable spines
along the back.
About Loodianah, the Naiad of Affghanistan, Monandra, stigmatibus
reniformibus, is common in the Nullah, so also is Butomus begonifolius,
but this may be a leafless form of Sagittaria.
Towards Roopur, Sissoo becomes more and more common. Roopur is a largish
town, with a Seikh pucka fort on a mound. The fort is surrounded by a
dry ditch. The town is situated on a low, rather rugged ground, forming
the first elevations of the surface towards the Himalayas; beyond it to
the north-east is a low spur, also to the west a similar spur, very
barren, rugged, clayey rock forming the immediate bank of the river.
Every thing assimilates to the Bukriala and Jhilun ranges. Saccharum,
_Moong_, as before, _Bheir_ likewise occurs.
Phoenix, Dalbergia sissoo, Ficus, Adhatoda, Boerhaavia scandens,
Hyperanthera, Morus, Apluda, Tamarisk, Riccia, Ammannia, Euphorbia
antiquorum, Cactus, and Dodonaea, form the chie
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