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local mammalia, interim lists (even though provisional) shovild be 

 useful to them not only as showing what forms have been obtained 

 in any locality dealt with, but also what forms have not been 

 obtained. Our Collector, I fear, will not be able to help much with 

 vernacular names, habits or folklore ; here residents can help 

 enormously by ascertaining and recording such in the Journal, 

 thus providing material for the Editor when Blanford's Mammalia 

 comes to be revised. 



In this and any of the following reports which it may fall to my 

 lot to write, I propose, after careful study of the references, to 

 discuss and deal with the synonymy given by Blanford in his 

 Fauna, the first time any species comes to be considered, but shall 

 not repeat this unless circumstances absolutely I'equire it. Any 

 undoubtedly new species or sub-species (geographical races) I 

 propose to describe separately, if possible, in the same number of 

 the Journal merely giving the name and a reference back in the 

 '•' Report." 



The area in which the present Collection was made lies along 

 the border where the Khandesh District marches with the Nizam's 

 Territory. (The Bats were taken at the Ajanta Caves actually 

 within that Territory.) The boundary, for the most part, is a 

 range of low ghats covered with scrub jungle, the plains above 

 and below being mostly black alluvial soil, growing chiefly cotton 

 and jowari, with occasional patches of babhul forest — noticeably at 

 Ghodasgaum on the Purna River. 



The collection is by no means completely representative, it 

 consists of 152 specimens (including 10 in spirit) which I have 

 been able to allot to 27 species in 23 genera. 



The monkeys are represented by three specimens of the common 

 Langur. There is no specimen of the common Red Monkey. Of 

 Bats there are eight species mostly of c[uite common forms, which 

 were dealt with in my paper " Some Konkan Bats '.' (Vol. XII, 

 p. 716, 1899), one, however, Ta])hozous hachhensis, Dobson, has not, 

 I believe, been recorded since it was first found by Stoliczka forty 

 years ago. 



The Insectivores are disappointing, being represented only by 3 

 Shrews. They are a most difficult group to classify and good 



