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FURTHER NOTES ON SOME MAMMALS FROM 

 LOWER SIND. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



As mentioned in an Editorial footnote to my paper On A Small 

 Collection of Rodents from Loiver 8ind in the last number of the 

 Journal some other specimens, besides those recorded, were included 

 in Mr. Priestley's Collection. These unfortunately did not reach me 

 in time to be published in the above paper but as there are several 

 interesting specimens amongst them it has been thought worth 

 while to publish the following list to which is also added some 

 notes on hares obtained in adjacent districts :• — 

 Erinaceus blanfordi, Anders. 

 S 18? 17. 



The specimens have no parting on the crown and it is possible that after 

 ?L]\.jerdoni and blanfordi may prove to be separate species. To settle this 

 question specimens like these from liohri, the type locality of blanfordi, are 

 a sine qua non. 



(39). Felis ornata, Grey and Hardw. 



1832. Felis ornata, Grey and Hardwicke. 111. Ind. Zool. i., pi. 2. 

 cJ 41, 42, 43, 44, 48. ? 40, 49, 51. 

 A fine series, very constant in essential characters. 

 (60 part.) Munc/os ferruc/ineus, Blanf . 



1874. Herpestesferrugineus, Blanford. P. Z. S., p. 661. pi. Ixxxi. 

 S 55, 64. ? 56, 62. 

 , These specimens are undoubtedly /e?vM_(7?"wez<s, Blanf., which was based on 

 a specimen from Larkhana, Sind. The ochraceous colouring is much ex- 

 aggerated in the plate accompanying Blanford's description. The synony- 

 my of the Common Indian Mungoose, recorded as Kerpestes mungo in 

 Blanford's Mammalia, is very involved and obscure, but by whatever 

 name it is known whether mungo, nemo, griseus, or nyula, &c., it is different 

 from the Sind form, which shows quite constantly an ochraceous tint in its 

 pale colouring and the ferrugineous tail tip which so markedly charac- 

 terises it. 



(58 part.) Mungos 2^allipes, Blyth. 



1845. Herpestes palli-pes, Blyth. J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 346, 



d63. 



