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former he'wg; an animal evidently conspicuous and widely 

 distributed. Then there is a Phi/Uotis with hairy gerbille- 

 like soles, quite a new departure in the group, and a new 

 Ctenomys. Altogether this collection, though disappointing 

 to i\Ir. Simons himself, owing to its small extent, proves scien- 

 tifically to be of very considerable value. 



The following extracts from Mr. Simons's notes may be of 

 interest as illustrating the nature of the country: — 



" Potosi. — From the summit of Potosi Peak the outlook is 

 brown, barren, rough and crisp, like the people. To the 

 north the peaks and ridges disappear away in the blue haze. 

 The eastern view is closed by the Cari Mt. Range, whose 

 summits are grey and are flanked by decomposed soil. The 

 intervening area is full of canons and moraines of granite 

 boulders, at the end of wiiich stands the Red City. 



" Sucre. — From the summit of the mountain S.E. of Sucre 

 one sees the entire horizon at a great distance as a great 

 circular range of mountains, and all inside the circle as a 

 brown, barren, rough waste, badly eroded and cut, with canons 

 extending in every direction. 



''Mount Pampa AuUaga is a grey talc, with plenty of 

 scoriai scattered about. Its base is sandy and cultivated. It 

 was apparently formerly a volcano, and the town is now in 

 its crater. 



" On all the eastern slope of the Andes there seems to be a 

 belt or zone at about 2 oOO ra. in which there are few or no 

 animals. I noticed this first when going in to the Inambari 

 (S.P]. Peru) and at all the places where I have entered the 

 niontaua since. The Indians of the sierra will not go into 

 the lowlands, nor will those of the lowlands go up." 



1. Conepatus arequipcej Thos. 



9 . Pampa Aullaga, 3800 m. 



Closely similar to the original specimens, and equally 

 different from the remarkable C. rex, of Sahama. 



2. Eligniodontia domorum, Thos. 



cJ, 2 ? . Sucre, 2700 m. 



3 c? , 2 ? . El Cabrado, 3700 m. 



In some of these specimens the belly-hairs are white to 

 the roots. Their skulls all have the small bullae which 

 distinguish E, domorum from E. cachina. 



3. Phyllotis holiviensis, Waterh. 



2 ? . Livichuco, 4500 m. 



3 cJ, 3 ? . Potosi, 4100 m. 



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