MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 311 



Eeport No. 22. 



By R. C. Wroughton. 



No. 22. 

 Koyna Valley. 



Collection 

 Locality 

 Date 



Collected by 

 Earlier Reports 



December, 1914— January, 1915. 



Mr. S. H. Prater. 



See No. 20 on page 291. 



The valley of the Koyna River runs North and South, parallel 

 to the crest of the Western Ghats, and a short distance East of it, 

 for a distance of about 40 miles, when the river turns sharply East. 

 It was this first stretch of 40 miles whose fauna it was intended to 

 investigate, but tinfortunately the original intention could not be 

 carried out. Mr. Prater, however, made a collection at Medha at 

 the north end of the valley, at the foot of Mahableshwar, and 

 another at the bend, at Helwak, and supplemented these by a 

 couple of collections at and near Shirgaum and Khed, in the Rat- 

 nagiri District, below ghats. The collection thus represents the 

 faiina immediately above (2,000 feet) and below (but slightly above 

 sea level) the Western Ghats, at between 17-18 degrees North. 



The Collection contains 420 specimens belonging to 34 species. 

 It is interesting on account of the data of distribution, e. r/., in the 

 case of Mungos muncjo ellioti, and Funamhuhis pennanti, &c., which 

 it furnishes, but that is all that can be claimed for it. 



The following are Mr. Prater's notes on the collecting Stations : — 



Karad in the Krishna Valley, where the Koyna river joins the 

 Krishna. The country is flat gradually sloping towards the hills on 

 either side, there are no forests but many gardens and plantations. 



Helivak in the Koyna Valley. The Koyna river here flows be- 

 tween high hills, covered with dense jungle except where the hill 

 side have not been cleared. 



Ghatmatha situated as its name implies at the head of the ghat 

 from where the road descends into the Konkan. 



Shirgaum on the borders of the Ratnagiri district at the foot of 

 the ghats. The surrounding country is all under cultivation. 



KJied a small town on the tidal creek which opens out on to the 

 coast at Dhabul, The country is undulating and surrounded by 

 low bare hills. 



(1) PiTHECUS SINICUS, L. 



The Bonnet Monhey. 



(Synonymy in No. 5.) 



(5 1, Ghatmatha, Satara. 



{See also Reports Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11.) 



Hitherto the Survey has only recorded this animal from Dharwar and 

 southwards. 



