su^^^rAli'r of the ixdiax mammal survey. ->w 



up for the foniis foniul in India, Burmni and Cej'lon and that if 

 applied to forms outside that launa they will be found in many 

 cases to be entirely misleading. 



The information under each Genus has been arranged in three 

 parts : — 



Firstlji. — In the margin are given the ' No. .and specific name,' 

 exactly as r^sed by J^lanford. while atjainst tliem is recoi'ded, as 

 shortly as possible, the alterations and additions adopted since 

 1891, with references as far as possible to the places where the 

 reasons for the changes in question are recorded in greater detail. 



Secondli/. — A key to the forms thus shown to be included ir. the 

 G enus. 



Thirdhj. — A note headed UisTRiHUTiON, under which the inform- 

 ation is arranged under three heads. 



" Tijpe localitif ". — The exact place, so far as it is ascertainable, 

 \vhere the type of the Species was taken, followed in brackets by 

 the name of the Collector, where known. (It was originally sug- 

 gested that I should record the name of the person who first took 

 the species, but I found that this would require much more work 

 than it Avas worth and I compromised as explained above.) 



" Other localities ". — Blanford's heading • Distribution,' in view 

 of the chano-es which it has been found necessary to make in his 

 ' species,' has become actuallj^ misleading. The localities recorded 

 here are those from which there are specimens in the National 

 Collection, (B. M.), or those from \vhich the form has been obtained 

 by the Mammal Si-irve}' of India, (M.S. I.). (Where specimens 

 other than the tj'pe have been obtained fi'om the type locality that 

 localitj' is repeated under this head. Where the entry is ' none ' it 

 denotes that the type specimen is still unique.) 



" Ti/pe ". — Under this head it has been endeavoured to record as 

 exactly as possible the present resting place of every tj'^pe specimen. 

 Where lists of t3^pes have been published (e.g., Ind. Mus. Calcutta, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., &c.) the exact specimen is indicated, but elsewhere, 

 though a probable place is denoted, this must not be taken as a 

 guarantee that the type still exists. In a considerable number 

 of cases, especially' of Hodgson's names, no one ' type ' was selec- 

 ted b}"" the aiithor and in such cases the series on which the name was 

 based have been treated as ' co-types ' and after careful examination 

 and investigation Thomas has fixed ' Lectotypes ' (J. B. N. H. S., 

 Vol. XXV, p. 308,1918). These have beenVecorded here. Where 

 the types or lectotypes of synonyms have been traced they have 

 been recorded in brackets after the pi-incipal type. 



Desiderata. 



Our Honorary Secretary has suggested that a list of fonns of 

 which specimens are specially required should be added, but this I 



