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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Volume XVII. 1894. 



NOTES ON MAMMALS OF BALTISTAN AND THE VALE OP 

 KASHMIR, PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM BY 

 DR. W. L. ABBOTT. 



By Pkederick W. True, 



Curator of the Department of Moinmals. 



Cm. W. L. Abbott has very generously presented to the Museum 

 tlie skins and skulls of a number of species of Kashmir mammals, the 

 majority of which were unrepresented in the collection. 



Among them are three species of Voles {Arvicoln), which appear to 

 be undescribed, and also a new geographical race of Mus arianus. 

 The specimens of the Rhesus monkey also seem to me to be worthy of 

 a separate subspecific name. The discovery of the recently-described 

 Sminthns eoncolor in Kashmir extends the range of that species a 

 thousand miles. 



The collection was made between 1891 and 1893. 



HEMNOPITHECUS SCHISTACEU.S, Hodjison. 



Dr. Abbott obtained two .specimens of this fine monkey at Kaj Nag. 

 He states that in both specimens the f^ice, ears, palms, and soles were 

 black, and the callosities dusky. The iris is clear brown. He gives the 

 following dimensions: 



I'nicccdiiiKs Xiitioiial Miisemii. \'i>l. XV'II— No. II76. 



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