MAMMAL SURVEl OF INDIA. 45 



Repoet by R. C. Wroughton, f.z.s., and Kathleen V. Ryley. 

 Collection ... ... No. 7. 



Locality 



Date 



Collected by ... 



Earlier Reports . . 



Central Provinces. 



January- June 1912. 



Mr. C. A. Crump. 



No. I, E. Khandeish, Vol. XXI, p. 

 392 ; No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 844 ; No. 3, Cutch, Vol. XXI, 

 p. 286 ; No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 844 ; No. 5, Dharwar, VoL 

 XXI, p. 1170; No. 6, Kanara, Vol. XXII, p. 29. 



The specimens in this collection were obtained in the western 

 half of the Central Provinces : from the Dam oh and Saugor 

 districts in the extreme north, Hoshangabad District in the west 

 and from the Balaghat and Chanda Districts in the south. The 

 Damoh and Saugor Districts are in the Jubbulpore Division of 

 the Central Provinces, lying between 23° and 25° N. Lat. and 

 78° and 80° E. Long., practically along the tropic of cancer. 

 Damoh is a part of the Vindhyan plateau and joins Saugor on the 

 west, the latter forming an extension of the Malwa plateau above 

 the Nerbiidda valley ; the two districts are bounded on the north 

 by the United Provinces. The country is undulating and broken 

 by ranges of hills ; the most striking featiire being the sheer scarp 

 of the Vindhj^an range ; some of the hills are stony and bare, 

 others are covered with trees. The chief rock formation is Vin- 

 dhyan sandstone. The trees are mostly teak, bamboo and the 

 usual scrub. The annual rainfall averages about 50 inches. 



The Hoshangabad District is situated immediately east of 

 Nimar and north of the Berars, between 22° and 23-" N. Lat., 

 and 77^-79° E. Longitude. It comprises a narrow strip of open 

 black soil country along the bank of the Nerbudda, and of a 

 southerly and easterly portion of mountainous broken country, 

 composed of the Mahadeo and other hills which are outliers of the 

 Satpuras. The vegetation of these hills is of the same character 

 as that of Nimar and the Berars, biit the forests are much more 

 luxuriant and continuous, as is only to be expected, with a rain- 

 fall exceeding 50 inches. 



The Balaghat and Chanda Districts are in the Nagpur Division 

 of the Central Provinces, between 18° and 23° N. Lat. and 78° 

 and 81° E. Long., and bounded on the west by Berar, and 

 Bastar on the east. 



The country is hilly and forms part of the Satpura plateau, 

 it is covered with thick forests and the soil is generally sandy. 

 The rock formation is chiefly granite. Teak is general but not 

 abundant, bamboo is also general, but the forest vegetation is of 

 a mixed character. Wheat and rice are grown. Balaghat has 

 an average rainfall of 62 inches, which is high for the Central 

 Provinces : Chanda has about 50 inches. 



