50 Dr. N. Severtzoff on the Mammals of Turkestan. 



33. Felts catus domestica. 



Throughout Turkestan; but does not occur above the 

 apple and ash-grove district. 



34. Arctomys haihadnus. 



I found this species in the highest mountains of the east ; 

 below 4000 feet altitude they did not come under my obser- 

 vation *. 



35. Arctomys caudatiis. 



Up to the present time I have found this species only in one 



locality, viz. in the Carahurinsk rocks, south of the Aulje-ata, 



n the^Untain-chains between Talks and Chirchik. The 



only specimen preserved has been lost; but I remember that 



it Avas yellow, with fine black longer han-, the head was darker 



and blackish the colour and shape (except the tail) were g-ene- 



rallv like those of A. haihak. In my notes, however, I have 



the measurements of a young specimen obtained by me : its 



length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail was 



14 tnches 2 lines, tail 8 inches 5 lines. This long tail affords 



a o-ood specific character for A. caudatus. 



At the place where this specimen was killed there were about 

 twenty holes in the ground, proving that this species, like the 

 other marmots, lives gregariously ._ ^ ^ f ^'^ ^„u. 



Jacquemont, who discovered this species, also found it only 

 in one high-situated plain of the Himalayas, a little east ot 

 Cashmir, on the road to Ladak • i i •+ +i ^ 



These two localities show that A. caudatus inhabits the 

 south-western Thian-Shan and the north-western Himalayas, 

 and probably also all the space between the two mountain- 

 chains where they are interrupted ; but the occurrence m the 

 above two localities might also be sporadic, bemg the two 

 outer limits, and the space between them unknown. 



T^ • ^ ^+ -nvnnnii^ a branch of the lower Syr, now dry, but at that 

 Daria (not Dyanau), a b™'_^ « the Academy of Sciences in 



KetrsSg, 4d £ aTrfdoVot know how it came into the British 



^^ rTTirue F. sermlina is a West-African species. Cf. Sclater, Proc. 



'^'t^^y^'-^Vri^oi'^^^^ that these specimens might 



* [Dr. Se^ertzottsubsequen^^^^^ Mr. Blanford iden- 



p. 126.-E. R. A.] 



