MAMMAL SURVEY OF IXDI.l, liT'RMA AND CEYLON: 473 



presented only by the snbspecillc i'ovu\ Jdiictld. Petaimsta cineraceus, 

 Paradoxurns raims and Mkikjos hirmnuicxs are also recorded for the 

 first time. 



Mr. J. M. D. Mackenzie has kindh' fiirnished the followinof 

 notes on the area over which he collected : — 



" The country lies mostly within, and includes aboi;t half of the 

 Pegn civil district ; in the extreme North it goes into Tharawaddy, 

 and in tlie South into Hanthawaddy. It is a somewhat miscellane- 

 ous agglomeration of couutrj^, round the town of Pegu. To the 

 North it extends to the Pegu Yomas, and consists of the drainage 

 of the Pegu River. Twent^'-five miles Noi'th of Pegu, the Eastern 

 boundary crosses to the Sittang River, meeting it at the mouth of 

 the Pegu-Sittang Canal. From there to the sea-coast, the Sittang 

 River is the boundary. On the West, the boundary runs down the 

 Pegu Yomas from the North, up to some 20 miles North of Pegu. 

 From tliere it follows a stream until it comes into the Pesrvi River 

 some 1 5 miles below Pegu ; thence along the Pegu and Rangoon 

 Rivei*s to the mouth of the latter, excludino- the town of Ran^roon. 

 From the mouth of the Rangoon River to the mouth of the Sittang 

 River it follows the sea-coast, including the Western part of the 

 Gulf of Martaban. The area is I'oughly 140 miles from North to 

 South, and 25 miles from East to West, going to a point in the 

 North and being slightly wider in the South, and represents, parti- 

 ally at any rate, the fauna of Central Burma, connecting up S. 

 Tenasserim with the three ai-eas worked by Shortridge in the 

 North. 



" The area admits of division into two distinct types, with an 

 intermediate area between. From 30 miles North of Pesfu to the 

 Northern limit, the country consists of nothing but forest reserves, 

 that is, jungle containing large trees, e.g., teak and ironwood, with 

 considerable areas of bamboo, more or less pure. There is practically 

 no permanent cultivation or level land in this area, which is 

 inhabited by only a few Karens (about 1,000), pi-actising 

 ' Taungya,' or shifting cultivation, within specified areas. (See 

 Report No. 25). It consists of steep, broken hills of no great 

 height (the highest is some 2,000), thickly wooded. 



" From 30 miles North of Pegu to the level of Pegu, there is 

 scrub jungle, sometimes replaced by reserves containing big trees 

 in some parts, and permanent (wet) paddy cultivation in others. 

 This area contains a considerable population, and there is very 

 little more 7-oom for cultivation. A good deal of Taungya cutting 

 is done by men who cannot get fields. 



South of Pegu to the sea, the country is one vast paddy plain. 

 On it everything is subordinated to padd}'. There is no fuel or 

 timber, and only such grazing as is enforced. The only trees are 

 those round villages (rain-trees generally) aud a few plantations 



