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shorter. The average length of the tail in the four adult specimens is 

 slightly less than half that of the head and body, or about 48 j^er cent. 

 The skull of one of the males is of the following dimensions: 



Measurements . 



Total length from anterior mar!»in of premaxilla' to occipital crest. . 

 Basilar length from anterior margin of foramen magnum to anterior 



margin of premaxilla' 



Length of palate 



Length of upper molar series 



Zygomatic breadth 



Heigh t of orbit 



IJreailth of orbit 



Length of anterior nares 



Hreadth of anterior nares 



Depth of mandible at coronoid process, verticatly 



35488, cT, 



Lolab, 



Kashmir. 



mm. 

 136 



97 



54 



35 



97. 5 



23.5 



30 



22 



U 



55- 



All the specimens were taken in the pine forests at Lolab, in the Vale 

 of Kashmir, in Sei)tember, 18!H, at an elevation of 7,r)()0 feet. 



ffiils- Male. Lolab, Kasbuiir, September 8, 1891. Type. 

 IJ^l^. Male, young. Lolab, Kasbinir, September 9, 1891. 



Male, young. Jjolab, Kashmir, September 9, 1891. 



Male. Lolab, Kashmir, September 8, 1891. 



Male. Lolab, Kashmir, September 9, 1891. 



35 48 7' 



FliLIS TOKQUATA, F. Cuvier. 



Dr. Abbott assigns to this species, with liesitancy, a skull (]S'o. 36396) 

 which he obtained in the Lolab Valley, Kashmir. He remarks: "This 

 cat was shot in a jungle close to a village and was thought to be a came 

 specimen. I am not now sure that it was not a wild one. The tame 

 cats in Kashmir resemble the wild ones almost exactly. This one's 

 skin (not preserved) agreed with the description of i^. forqnatay 



CANIS AUREUS, Linna-us. 



A single skull (No. 36395) from the Vale of Kashmir has been 

 labeled by Dr. Abbott as belonging to this species. 



VULl'ES MONTANUS, ( 1' e a r sou). 



There are two specimens of this handsome fox in the collection, one 

 from the Shigar Valley, Baltistan, and a second from the Vale of 

 Kashmir. They agree well with the description given by jNIr. Blan- 

 ford,* except that the ears are Avhite within, and there is no black spot 

 in front of the eye. The fur is very thick and long in the winter speci- 

 men. 



*Blanforfl, Fauna of British India, Mammalia, 1888, p. 153, 



