286 Mr. W. T. Blanford on the African 



21. Tragulus (Oriental). A representative genus, Hyomos- 

 chus^ in West Africa. Tragulus in India is confined, I 

 believe, to the Malabar province, the Bengal subprovince 

 of the Indian province, and perhaps the Madras province. 

 I have never been able to hear of its existence in the 

 Gangetic or Deccan subprovinces. 



22. Cervus (Oriental and Pal^earctic ; family not Ethiopian). 



23. Cervulus (Oriental; family not Ethiopian). Very local 

 in India except in the Malabar province. 



24. Bibos (Paleearctic and Oriental). Only a subgenus of 

 Bos. Bubalus, which is omitted, has, I believe, at least 

 as good claims to be considered a Central-Indian form 

 as Tragulus. It is aboriginally wild in the Bengal sub- 

 province, part of the Madras subprovince (Northern 

 Ceylon), and in Assam ; probably feral only in Malay- 

 asia ; but this is not certain, so I omit it. The original 



• form, B. paloiindicus y occurs fossil in the Nerbudda 

 valley. It is a thoroughly African genus. 



25. Portax (Oriental) . Indian only ; unknown east of the 



Bay of Bengal, and, so far as I am aware, in the Malabar 

 province. It is a distinctly Ethiopian type, represented 

 by allied genera ( Oreas, T^'agelajjhus) in Africa. 



26. Gazella (Paljearctic and Ethiopian). Unknown in any 

 part of the Oriental region east of the Panjab and Sind, 

 except the Indian province, and therein confined to the 

 Gangetic and Deccan subprovinces. 



28*. nlfacL?{0li^^^^^ ^^^' ^^ ^^^^^^5 Ethiopian 



types unknown east of the Bay of Bengal. 



29. Elephas (Oriental species). The genus, however, is 



Ethiopian. 



30. Mus (cosmopolite nearly). 



31. Platacanthomys (Oriental). Erroneously ascribed to the 



Indian province. It has only been found in the Malabar 

 hills. 



32. Meriones (very wide range). Palsearctic and found 

 throughout the Ethiopian region. Unknown out of 

 India in the Oriental region. I do not know whether 

 it occurs in Malabar. 



33. Spalacomys or Nesohia (Oriental). Palsearctic as well : 

 one species in Baluchistan, another just described from 

 Eastern Turkestan ; one of the Indian species inhabits 

 Kashmir. Not known east of India. The only reported 

 occurrence in Burmah, P. A. S. B. 1866, p. 240, requires 

 confirmation. 



34. Sciurus (almost cosmopolite). 



