50 Dr. N. SevertzofV on the Mammals of TurJcestan. 



33. Felis catus domestica. 



Throughout Turkestan ; but does not occur above the 

 apple and ash-grove district. 



34. Arctomys haihacinus. 



I found this species in the highest mountains of the east ; 

 below 4000 feet altitude they did not come under my obser- 

 vation *. 



35. Arctomys caudatus. 



Up to the present time I have found this species only in one 

 locality, viz. in tlie Garahurinsk rocks, south of the Aulje-ata, 

 in the mountain-chains between Tallas and Chirchik. The 

 only specimen preserved lias been lost ; but I remember that 

 it was yellow, with fine black longer hair, the head was darker 

 and blackish ; the colour and shape (except the tail) were gene- 

 rally like those of A. haibalc. In my notes, hoAvever, I have 

 the measurements of a young specimen obtained by me : its 

 length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail was 

 14 inches 2 lines, tail 8 inches 5 lines. This long tail affords 

 a good specific character for A. caudatus. 



At the place where this specimen was killed there were about 

 twenty holes in the ground, proving that this species, like the 

 other marmots, lives gregariously. 



Jacquemont, avIio discovered this species, also found it only 

 in one high-situated plain of the Himalayas, a little east of 

 Cashmir, on the road to Ladak. 



These two localities show that A. caudatus inhabits the 

 south-western Thian-Shan and the north-western Himalayas, 

 and probably also all the space between the two mountain- 

 chains where they are inteiTupted ; but the occm-rence in the 

 above two localities might also be sporadic, being the two 

 outer limits, and the space between them unknown. 



Daija (not Dyanau), a branch of the lower Syr, now dry, but at that 

 time flowing. All my specimens I gave to the Academy of Sciences in 

 St. Petersburg, and this also. I do not know how it came into the British 

 Museum. 



[The true F. servalitia is a West-African species. Cf. Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 495, pi. Ixiii.— E. R. A.] 



* [Dr. Severtzoff subsequently suggested that these specimens might 

 belong rather to Milne-Edwards's A. robustus, Vvhich Mr. Blauford iden- 

 tifies with A. himalayanus of Hodgson. Cf, Jom-n. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliv. 

 p. 126.~E. R. A.] 



