54 MR. 0. THOMAS ON THE MAMMALS OF [Jan. 19, 
2. On the Mammals presented by Allan O. Hume, Esq., 
C.B., to the Natural History Museum. By Oxpriexp 
Tuomas, F.Z.S. 
[Received November 16, 1885.] 
(Plates V. & VI.) 
ConTENTs. 
Introductory remarks, p. 54. III. The Tenasserim Collection. 
I. The Sambhar Collection, p. 55, p. 65. 
II. The Manipur Collection, p. 57. | IV. The Malay Peninsula Collec- 
tion, p. 72. 
Accompanying the magnificent donation of Indian birds recently 
made to the National Museum by Mr. A. O. Hume, there is a 
collection of nearly 400 mammals, which, although appearing of 
small account beside the enormous ornithological series, is yet, viewed 
on its own merit, one of the finest collections of mammals ever 
received by the Museum. This is due not only to the large number 
of the specimens and the exeellence of the skins, which are both in 
preparation and conservation very far above the average, but also to 
the careful manner in which they have been labelled, nearly all of 
them having their exact localities and dates recorded. Thus of the 
371 specimens retained in the Museum, only 59 are undated, and only 
some 10 or 12 are without exact localities, while such large series of 
perfect skins, especially of the Squirrels and other small mammals, 
have probably never before been brought together. 
The collection consists of a few specimens respectively from Simla, 
Delhi, the Nilghiris, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but the 
great mass of it came from four separate localities, viz. Sambhar, 
in Rajpootana, Manipur, Tenasserim, and the Malay peninsula, and 
I have thought it better not to give one list of the whole, thereby 
confusing the localities and destroying any use the list might have 
for faunistic purposes, but to give four separate lists, each of which 
forms a distinct contribution to the fauna of a well-defined locality. 
The total number of species represented in the collection is 106, of 
which 19 are from Sambhar, 19 from Manipur, 25 from Tenasserim, 
and 28 from the Malay peninsula, the remainder being from the 
other localities above mentioned. 
Before commencing the detailed lists, I must express my obligations 
to Mr. W. T. Blanford for the assistance he has given me in working 
out this collection, an assistance the more valuable as he is himself 
preparing a work on the mammals of India, and has therefore the 
whole subject at his fingers’ ends. For help also in making out 
details of localities, dates, &c. I must thank my colleague Mr. R. 
Bowdler Sharpe, who himself fetched the collection from Simla, and 
to whose careful packing the excellent condition in which the 
specimens now are is partly due. 
