VIAGGIO DI LEONARDO FEA 
IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 
XLI. 
On the MAMMALIA collected by Signor LEONARDO FEA in Burma and Tenasserim : 
by OLDFIELD THOMAS, British Museum (Natural History), 
(Plates X, XI). 
During the years 1885-1889 Signor Leonardo Fea, of the 
Museo Civico, Genoa, made a most successful Zoological exploring 
expedition to Burma and Tenasserim which has resulted in a 
collection of specimens of all sorts unequalled in extent and 
variety (1). Among others the Mammalia received their full share 
of the attention of this indefatigable naturalist, and his collections 
in this class amount to something like fifteen hundred spe- 
cimens belonging to 114 species, a collection for whose equal 
in amount we have to go back to the time of Natterer (?). 
The present paper is an attempt to give a general account 
of the collection, but I fear it is of a nature very unworthy of 
the splendid materials it is based upon, owing to the many 
difficulties incidental to its preparation. Chief among these was 
the fact that the Marquis G. Doria, who had hoped and in- 
tended to have prepared the paper in conjunction with myself, 
(1) See the large series of papers on the Fea collection published in these Annali. 
@ Even Natterer, in 18 years, collected fewer specimens though of more species 
than Fea in 5, his total being 1179 specimens and 205 species, the latter amount 
being reducible to a considerable extent owing the numerous bad species admitted 
in the list. 
Ann. del Mus. Civ. di St. Nat. Serie 2.*, Vol. X (9 Giugno 1892) 58 
