THE GAME ANIMALS OF INDIA, 

 BURMA, MALAYA, AND TIBET 



INTRODUCTION 



The area of which the game animals (or rather 

 mammals) are described in the present volume may 

 be designated in popular language " the Sportsman's 

 India." Roughly speaking, it comprises the drainage- 

 basins of the Indus, Bramaputra, and Irawadi Rivers, 

 or the greater portion thereof, together with the whole 

 of India, Ceylon, the province of Tenasserim, and the 

 Malay Peninsula. Including a large part of Baluchistan 

 and Afghanistan, the area is well defined towards the 

 north-west by the barrier of the Hindu-Kush and 

 Karakoram ranges. Eastwards of the latter the 

 boundary is fixed by the Tangla Mountains, to the 

 north of Lhasa, whence an arbitrary line may be drawn 

 to the eastern frontier of Burma, which may be taken 

 as the boundary in this direction. The whole of Tibet 

 and the Himalaya consequently fall within the area 

 treated of ; but, on the other hand. Eastern Turkestan 

 and China, as well as Siam and Cochin -China, are 

 excluded. 



It has to be acknowledged that, in fixing these 

 limits, a somewhat arbitrary division has been made. 

 It has indeed been suggested to the author that 

 it would have been better to include the whole of 

 Asia, as it seems rather illogical to describe certain of 



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