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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Report by R. C. Wroughton, f. z. s. 



Collection 



Locality 

 Date... 

 Collected by 



Earlier Reports 



p. 392 ; No. 2, Berars 



No. 6. 



. . . Kanara. 



... January, April- June 1912. 



... Mr. G. C. Shortridge. 



. . No. 1, E. Khandeish, Vol. XXI, 

 Vol. XXI, p. 820 ; No. 3, Cutch, Vol. 

 XXI, p. 826 ; No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 844 ; No. 5, Dharwar, 

 Vol. XXI, p. 1170. 



The District of Kanara (or more properly speaking, North 

 Kanara) in which the present collection was made, was to some 

 extent dealt with in the description by Elliot quoted in the 

 introduction to the Dharwar Report. It occupies a strip of 

 country lying between the Dharwar District and the sea, immedi- 

 ately south of Goa, about 100 miles long by 40 miles wide. It is 

 traversed, north and south, by the Western Ghats (2,500 to 

 3,000 ft.), the eastern third being above Ghats, while the western 

 two-thirds is made up of the slopes of the Ghats, and a narrow strip 

 of seashore from 5 to 15 miles wide. 



The rainfall on the coast is about 120 inches, and is considerably 

 heavier on the slopes of the Ghats, but on the above-ghat plateau 

 it is less than half that amount. 



The whole area is wooded, the major part with heavy forest. 

 In the northern part of the district the forest is composed for the 

 most p^rt of deciduous trees, such as the teak, and the species 

 usually associated with it, with an undergrowth of bamboos ; 

 while in the south, near the Mysore border, is found an evergreen 

 flora, including the well-known Poon (Galoi^hyllmn tomentosum') car- 

 petted and matted with creepers and canes. The practically 

 continuous forest is only broken by clearings for rice cultivation 

 around isolated villages, and beetal palm, and pan gardens in the 

 evergreen area. 



The following are short descriptions of the actual collecting 

 stations, furnished by Mr. G. C. Shortridge : — 



Potoli. — " Very small forest village, surrounded partly by ever- 

 greens, partly by deciduous forest (bamboos, &c.), hilly, plenty of 

 permenent water." 



Dandeli. — " On the banks of the Kalinadi River, very small, 

 isolated village, surrounded by deciduous forest, containing a 

 large proportion of bamboo." 



Maulinga. — " On the banks of the Kalinadi River, similar 

 country to Dandeli. No village." 



