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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 



MAxMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



Report No. 30, Dekhan, Poona District. 



BY R. C. Wroughton and Winifred M. Davidson. 



Collection ... ... No. 30. 



Locality ... ... Dekhan. 



Date ... ... January to May, 1918. 



Collected by ... ... Capt. Philip Gosse, r.a.m.c. 



Earlier Reports : — . . For previous reports, see Vol. XXV., 



p. 472, 1918. 



Captain Philip Gosse, r.a.m.C!., has presented to the Mammal 

 Survey a collection of 250 mammal specimens got together by him 

 during a short tour of service in India. The specimens are from 

 two distinct localities, and we propose to deal with them in two 

 separate Reports. 



Somewhat the lai'ger half of the specimens, 137 altogether, are 

 from the Dekhan {i.e., from Poona and the neighbourhood) ; and 

 these are dealt with in the present Report. 



The collection comprises 31 forms distributed over 23 genera. 



As was to be expected, there are, with the exception of a hitherto 

 unknown Fnnamlndus, and a new form of Wrinkle-lipped Bat, 

 no strikingly new forms, nor even forms new to the Mammal 

 Survey list; bub as linking up the East Khandesh and Satara 

 (Kojma Valley) collections this collection is of considerable interest. 



From the point of view of distribution the capture of Felis 

 rubiginosa at Khandalla is a great surprise, for hitherto it has not 

 been found North of Dharwar. 



The following is a detailed list of the specimens on the same 

 lines as in former Reports, except that we have omitted the refer- 

 ences to former Reports, as these are easily traceable from the 

 Summary recently published in this Journal. 



(1) Pteropus uiganteus giganteits, Brunn. 

 T/ie Indian Flying-Fox, 

 (Synonymy in No. 2.) 

 Poona, (S 2. 



" Common, feeding at night on certain trees. Shot feeding on Pepul 

 tree."— P. G. 



(2) Cynopterus sphinx sphinx, Vahl. 



The Common Plantain-Bat. 



(Synonymy in No. 6.) 



Poona § 1. 



"While in verandah at Sassoon Hospital the large bat I have seen three 

 or four times during the month flitted in. Rushed for net : when I got 



