-^'XVlll THE MAMMALS OF INDIA. 



three well-marked species in the extreme south of the peninsula. 

 Whilst 3Iacacus radiatus of Southern India replaces Inuus rhesus of 

 all Northern and Central India, a well-marked form of this group, 

 Inuus silenus, is peculiar to the south-west corner of the peninsula. 



The Lemurs are only outliers of the Madagascar Fauna, and 

 whilst one species is very abundant in the extreme south, another 

 Malayan species extends sparingly through Burmah into the north- 

 eastern corner of Bengal. 



Of the Frugivorous Bats, two species are spread throughout the 

 whole of India, and one additional species occurs in the south only. 

 Among Insectivorous Bats, the Rhinolophus group is much more 

 developed on the Himalayas than in all the rest of India ; seven 

 species being recorded as Himalayan, whilst only two occur in 

 Southern India ; but the Hipposideros section, which is more Malayan, 

 is about equally represented in the north and south of India. A 

 peculiar form, Ccdops of Blyth, has hitherto only been found in 

 the Bengal Sunderbuns. The yellow-bellied Nycticeji occur pretty 

 generally throughout India, but the largest species is from the 

 south ; whilst a peculiar type, N. ornatus, is only found in the 

 Himalayas. Most of the other Bats are generally distributed througii 

 the continent, except a few European forms, which only occur on the 

 Himalayas. 



Moles are only found in India in the south-east portion of the 

 Himalayas, being apparently an offshoot from the Indo-Chinese 

 region ; and the Shrews are more numerously developed in the same 

 portion of the Himalayas than in other parts of India. One species 

 of the peculiar Insectivorous genus, Tvpaia, a Malayan form, occurs 

 in Southern India, and another spreads from Burmah into the south- 

 eastern Himalayas. 



India abounds in Carnivora. Two species of Bears are Hima- 

 layan, and one of a somewhat different type extends throughout the 

 whole plains of India. A very remarkable form of Ursidce, Ailurus 

 fulgens, is peculiar to the Eastern Himalayas. One Marten is found 

 both on the Himalayas and Neelgherries, but Weasels, in India, 

 only occur on the former range. There is only one species of Otter 

 found in the South of India, but two are found in Bengal, and more 



