APPENDIX II. 



MAMMALS COLLECTED IN SHANSI, SHENSI AND KANSU 

 — BY A. DE C. SOWERBY. 



"THE Mammals collected during the expedition, and presented by Mr. Clark 



to the United States National Museum, number 220 specimens. Follow- 

 ing are details of the 33 species represented, besides the number, sex and 

 locality of each specimen. 



A series of these, representing all the species taken, was brought to 

 London in the summer of 1910 by Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, in whose company I 

 compared them with the Chinese material in the British Museum. Complete 

 facilities for this work were courteously granted by Mr. Oldfield Thomas, 

 F.R.S., Curator of Mammals at South Kensington. The new forms which 

 the collection contained have already been described by Mr. Miller in two 

 papers issued August, 1910 and February, igii. The first of these is entitled 

 •' A New Carnivore from China " (from the proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, vol. xxxviii., pages 385-386), and it deals with^the new 

 species Vormela negans from the Ordos Desert. The second paper is 

 entitled " Four New Chinese Mammals " (from the Proceedings of the 

 Biological Society, Washington, vol. xxiv., pages 53-55). This deals with the 

 four new species and sub-species Eptesicus serotinus pallens, Microtus pullus, 

 A llactaga mongolica longior, and Ochoiona annectens, from Shansi and Kansu. 



The descriptions are embodied in this report. 



The determinations and names of the other species dealt with in this 

 paper have been kindly verified and revised for me by Mr. Miller. The new 

 species or subspecies are underlined. 



I. Eptesicus serotinus pallens. Miller. 



1911. Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington, xxiv., page 58. 



(? 244. 18 miles east of Ku-yiian Chou, Kansu. Alt. 530 ft. August 



ist, 1909. 



^ 246. Ch^n-yiian Hsien. 70 miles west of Ch'ing-yang Fu, Kansu. 



Alt. 4000 ft. August 4th, 1909. Type of sub-species. 



^ 249 ? 250. 80 miles south-west of Yen-an Fu, Shensi. Alt. 



3500 ft. August 17th, 1909. 



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