Collection 

 Locality 

 Date 



Collected by . 

 Eakliek, Repokts 



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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 



MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



Report Nos. 18 & 19. 



(With a Plate). 

 By R. C. Wroughton. 



No. 18. 

 Cejloii. 



Janiiaiy-March 1914. 



Major E. W. Mayor. 



No. 1, E. Khandesh, Vol. XXI, 



p. 39-2, 1912 ; No. ti, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 820, 1912 ; No. 3, 



Ciitch, Vol. XXI, p. 826, 1912 ; No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 



944, 1912 ; No. 6, Dharwar, Vol. XXI, p. 1170, 1912 ; No. 6, 



Kanara, Vol. XXII, p. 29, 1913 ; No. 7, Central Provinces, 



Vol. XXII, p. 45, 1913 ; No. 8, Bellary, Vol. XXII, p. 58, 



1913 ; No. 9, Mysore, Vol. XXII, p. 283, 1913 ; No. 10, 



Khatiawar, Vol. XXII, p. 464, 1913 ; No. 11, Coorg, Vol. 



XXII, p. 486, 1913, No. 12, Palanpur, Vol. XXII, p. 684, 



1913; No. 13, Soiith Ceylon, Vol. XXII, p. 700, 1913; 



No. 14, Shan States, Vol. XXII, p. 710, 1913 ; No. 15, 



Knmaon, Vol. XXIIl, p 282, 1914; No. 16, Dry Zone, 



Central Burma, and Mt. Popa, Vol. XXIII, p. 460, 1915 ; 



No. 17, S. Tenasserim, Vol. XXIII, p. 695, 1915. 



This Report deals with the Collections rejjresenting the Fauna of 



Ceylon. A former Report, No. 13, by Miss Ryley, gave the results 



of a first collection from the Southern Province, but additional 



material since received has necessitated the re-examination of that 



material and in some cases a substitution of other names for those 



accepted by Miss Ryley. In these circumstances I have thought it 



most convenient to make this Report deal with the whole Island. 



Where there is no change of name the specimens are listed in lump 



under the heading " S. Ceylon". Where a species obtained in 



S. Ceylon is not represented in the new collection the species is 



entered but without a serial number. 



The following short account of the physiography of the Island is 

 compiled from the Imperial Gazetteer of India. There is a central 

 mountain zone (Central Province) from which outwards there 

 extends a broad fringe of plain which varies in width from 30 to 80 

 miles in the southern parts of the Island, but occupies very nearly 

 half of its area in the north. In the extreme North, however, about 

 Jaffna, the flats are quite recent, owing partly to elevation above the 

 sea and partl}^ to the accumulation of detritus w'ashed down by 

 strong southern currents from the Coromandel Coast and piled on 

 to the Coral Reefs round Point Pedro. 



The central mountains show groups of fantastic peaks and 

 prominences, but, irregular as is their apparent configuration, there 

 is a distinct tendenc}' to a north-east to south-west strike about 

 their main rids'es. 



