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area ;ui<l \>y the presence of tin- following, whirl) are wanting in tlie 

 Indian PeniiiMila Mammal- : tlic familie- Simiida-, Pro.-yoiiid;e, 

 Talpida-, and Spalacida-, and tin- sub-family ( Jymnuriiui', be-idcs 

 nimierou.o genera siu-li a-> /'//'////#/'///, ///7/W/..-. . //-<7<// //./, ./' 

 .\i'iiin,-li,i,ln.<, and i 'mi"-. Birds; the families Kuryhemida-, Indica- 

 torid;e, and Heliornithida 1 , the subfamily Paradoxornithime. Reptiles : 

 Platysternida- and Anguida'. Batraeliians : I Mscophida-, Hylida-, 

 Velobatida-, and Salaniandrida*. 



The following are the numlers of tin- genera in the different la.-ses 

 recorded from the Indian )>ortion of the Transgangetic region, but not 

 from the Ciagangetic: 



Mammals ............ 74 i'tj or :J5 percent. 



Birds .................. 47o 174 or :{;") 



lieptiles ............... S4 :iO or :'.") ., 



Batraehism ......... 16 s or 50 ., 



Freshwater tislie< ... (57 is 01- -21 ., 



Oinittinic hats, the nuinln'r of Trans^angetir mammals within Indian 

 limits ai-e fifty-four, of which L'li or 40 per <-ent. are not C'isuan^etir. 



The relations of the Himalayan fauna to that of Assam and Burma 

 on the one hand and to that inhabiting rhe Peninsula of India on the 

 other may l>e illustrated l>y the mammals with l>ats omitted. <)f forty- 

 one genera oei.-urrinjj in the Himalayas, three are not found in the 

 hills south of Assam or in Burma, whilst sixteen are wanting in the 

 Ciflgangetic region. It should l>e remembered that a large numler of 

 the genera are widespread forms. As the result is not in agreement 

 with the views of some who have written on the subject, the relations 

 >t -peeies have Keen examined. It ivsiilts that eighty -one species of 

 mammalia Itelonging to the orders IVimates, C'arnivora, Inseotivora, 

 liodentia, and I'ngulatji are recorded from the forest regions of the 

 Himalayas. Of these 2 are doubtful, '2'2 are not known to occur south 

 of the Himalayan range in India or Burma, 21 are wide ranging forms 

 and are found in both Burma and the Indian Peninsula, 1 only 

 (//if. ff i >.> h'n,-ii,;i) is common to the Himalayan fore-sts and the Indian 

 Peninsula, but does not range wist of the Bay of Bengal, whilst :i."i are 

 found in the countries east of the Bay of Bengal, but not in the Penin- 

 sula south of the (ianges. Of the 35, rt only range as far as the hills 

 south of the Assam Valley, 16 to Burma proper, and 11 to the Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. Or, in other words, of the 79 Himalayan 

 species, ."id or 70 per cent, are common to the Transgangetic region, and 

 only 22 or 2s per cent, to the Cisgangetic. Of the 22 species nut 

 ranging south of the Himalayas a large majority are either Holarctir 

 species or Injlong to Holarctic genera. 



The fauna of the Himalayan forest area is partly Holarctic, partly 

 Indo-Maluy. It is remarkably JMIO;, when compared with the C 



