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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



Report No. 24. Si>fD. 



By R. C. WR0UGHT0^^ 



Collection ... ... No. 24. 



Locality ... ... Sind. 



Date ... ... Februaiy to Ma}-, 1915. 



Collected by ... ... Mr. S. H. Prater, Museum Assis- 



tant, Bombay Natural History 

 Society. 



Earlier Reports ... ... No. 1, East Khandesh, Vol. XXII, p. 



392, 1912 ; No. 2, Berars, VoL XXI, p. 820, 19 L2 ; No. 3, 

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

 p. 944, 1912; No. 5, Dharwar, Vol. XXI, p. 1170, 1912 ; 

 No. 6, Kanara, Vol. XXII, p. 29, 1913 ; No. 7, Central 

 Provinces, Vol. XXII, p. 25, 1913 ; No. 8, Bellary, Vol. 

 XXII, p. 68, 1913; No. 9, Mysore, Vol. XXII, p. 283, 1913 ; 

 No. 10, Kathiawar, Vol. XXII, p. 464, 1918 ; No. 11, Coorg, 

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

 684, 1913 ; No. 13, South Ceylon, Vol. XXII, p. 700, 1913 : 

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

 Kumaon, Vol. XXIII, p. 282, 1914; No. 16, Dry Zone, 

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

 No. 17, Tennasserim, Vol. XXIII, p. 695, 1915 ; No. 18, 

 Ceylon, Vol. XXIV, p. 79, 1915; No. 19, Bengal, Vol. 

 XXIV, p. 96, 1915 ; No. 20, Chindwin, Vol. XXIV, p. 291, 

 1916; No. 21, Gwalior, Vol. XXIV, p. 309, 1916 ; No. 22, 

 Koyna Valley, Vol. XXIV, p. 311, 1916; No. 23, Sikkmi, 

 Vol. XXIV, p. 468, 1916. 



This Collection " made by Mr. Prater in Sind"' is mostly from the 

 Upper Sind Frontier. The Gazeteer gives the climate of the Upper 

 Sind Frontier as remarkable for its great maximum heat, which is 

 the greatest in India, the extreme variability of the temperature, 

 in the hot weather from April to October, the thermometer reaching 

 as high as 120, and the low rainfall, averaging 3 inches annuall}'. 



The Province of Sind consists of the lower valley and delta of the 

 River Indus lying between Lat. 23^^ and 28°49' N. and Long. 

 66°50' and 70°E. Its area including the Khairpur State is 54,128 

 square miles. It is bounded on the west by Baluchistan, on the north 

 by Baluchistan, the Punjab and Bhawalpur State, on the east by 

 Rajputana, and on the south b)^ the Rann of Cutch and the Arabian 

 Sea. The Collection represents the Mammal Fauna of a very small 

 portion of this territory. It includes the Upper Sind Frontier District, 

 where collecting was restricted to the level countr}^ ; the mountainous 

 area of the Baluchistan border was not visited ; the Sukkur District, 



