INTRODUCTION. XXIX 



on the Himalayas. Out of the fifteen Feline animals found in India, 

 five are common to India and Africa ; seven are found in India and 

 the Indo-Chinese region, but of these there are three that only 

 occur, in India, in the south-east Himalayas ; one (the Ounce) is 

 Himalayan, extending there from Central Asia ; and three (and these 

 are the smallest of the family) are peculiar to the plains of India, 

 two of them occurring in the extreme south of the peninsula, and 

 the other in the north-west. The genus Paradoxurus is strictly 

 Asiatic, and more Malayan than Indian. One species only is 

 common in most parts of India, and there are two in the Himalayas 

 and adjoining Terai. Out of seven species of Herpestes, a genus 

 common to India and Africa, five are only found in the southern 

 portion of the peninsula, and four of these in the extreme south. Of 

 the Civet Cats, one small species is found throughout India, common 

 also to Malayana ; and there is a large species in Northern India, 

 replaced in the extreme south by a different race. Several peculiar 

 forms of Carnivora, viz., Arctonyx, Arctictis, Helictis, Urva, and 

 Prionodon, are found in the South-east Himalayas, but they all extend 

 there from the Indo-Chinese region. 



Of the Canidse, the Wolf, Jackal, and Wild Dog are found 

 throughout India, and two small desert Foxes are found throughout 

 the plains, whilst a Fox of the European type occurs in the 

 Himalayas. 



Of the large Squirrels, three species of races occur in Southern 

 India, and one in the Eastern Himalayas, extending from the Indo- 

 Chinese district ; and in the same region two closely allied races 

 of Squirrel are found of a type immensely developed in Assam, 

 Burmah, and Malayana. Three species of ground Squirrel are 

 found in Southern India, one of which extends to the foot of the 

 Himalayas, and another to Central India ; one small species is 

 found in the eastern Himalayas spreading to Assam. Only two 

 species of Flying Squirrel are met with in Southern India, one of 

 them limited to the extreme south of the peninsula, the other 

 extending through Central India, although several species are found in 

 the Himalayas. Marmots only occur on the same range, being 

 outliers from Central Asia. 



