MAMMALIA. 



BY GLOVER M. ALLEN. 



The splendid collection of mammals made by Mr. Zappey in the Provinces 

 of Hupeh and Szechwan numbers some 375 well-prepared skins, together with 

 a few trade skins and several large skulls and horns. The lack of comparable 

 material has made the determination of some of the species rather difficult 

 especially in the case of the genera Epimys and Apodemus, of which a number of 

 closely allied forms inhabit southeastern Asia. Although Pere David collected 

 with considerable thoroughness in parts of Szechwan, and later travellers have 

 sent collections of mammals to Europe, there appear to be several species among 

 the smaller rodents that have hitherto escaped notice. Of these, perhaps the 

 most interesting are two very well-characterized species of voles belonging to 

 the subgenus Eothenomys, and a very dark brown Craseomys, also apparently 

 new, which is the most southeastern Asiatic species yet found, for voles seem 

 to be few in southern China. 



All measurements are in millimeters and colors are according to Ridgway's 

 Nomenclature of colors. 



BOVIDAE. 



BUDORCAS TIBETANUS (Milne Edwards). 



In the mountains at Lianghokow, western Szechwan, Mr. Zappey obtained 

 a fine adult female and at Washan two young Takins. Milne Edwards (1868-74) 

 who figured this animal and described its skeleton at some length, considered 

 it a race of B. taxicolor of the Mishmi Hills. Lydekker in the London Field 

 (1908, 111, p. 790) proposed the name Budorcas taxicolor mitchelli for a gray- 

 colored female received by the British Museum from Szechwan, supposing it 

 to represent a different race from the darker animal found in the same localities. 

 Later, however, after comparison of specimens he (1908a, p. 795) reached the 

 conclusion that the difference in color was merely sexual, and that B. taxicolor 

 was specifically distinct from B. tibetanus of Szechwan. In a communication 

 to the London Field, 19 March, 1910, 116, p. 520, he further records a gray 

 male from Szechwan, apparently indicating that the two color phases are inde- 

 pendent of sex. The adult female secured by Mr. Zappey represents the gray 

 phase. 



