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Mr. Crump gives the following notes on the actiial parts of the 

 district in which he obtained the specimens :— 



Damoh. — " The surroundings are more or less flat with ex- 

 tensive cultivation of cotton, rice and wheat. A few miles out 

 are some low hills covered with scrub and thin jungle, at this 

 time of year, the onl}'' water near the hills is in a tank." 



Narsingarh. — " The countrj:^ here is all under cultivation and 

 is, as a rule, almost devoid of cover ; the place contains the I'uins 

 of a fort." 



Ouda (Balaghat District) " is a small village at the foot of the 

 hills and just on the forest line, the forest is mixed and vege- 

 tation fairly thick, the grass being very long and plentiful ; the 

 rock is trap ; a good stream rises in the hills and flows past the 

 village ; cultivation is mostly rice and wheat, there is no jowari 

 cultivation here." 



GhincliiMli (Ohanda). — " The country for some distance round 

 Chinchpali is either flat or undulating. Heavy " mixed forest on 

 trap rock. There is a good tank near the village." 



Ghancla. — " The surroundings of the city are entirely flat, to 

 the north and west very extensive cultivation of jowari, rice and 

 wheat, interspersed everj^where with patches of babhul jungle. 

 Government Forest commences within a couple of miles to the 

 south, it is of the heav}^ scrub type, large trees being the ex- 

 ception, no water except in a tank alongside the high road." 



The collection consists of 828 specimens, divided between 46 

 species in 36 genera. 



As was to be expected, the Fauna is of the same general type 

 as that of Nimar and the Berars. The following names, however, 

 are new to the list of this survey, viz. — Simla rhesus, the common 

 Bengal Monk ej'' ; Cyno2?terus sjjhiiix'gangeticus the northern form 

 of the common short-nosed Fruit Bat ; Mungos smithi, a rather rare 

 mungoose, recognisable by its black tail-tip, Ltdori macrodiis, the 

 smooth Indian Otter (93 of Blanford, vide also p. 601 of the 

 Mammalia) ; and the eastern form of the common giant squirrel 

 (Eatuf a indica), which Blanford separated (Journal of this Society, 

 Vol. XI, p. 303) from the western form, under the subspecific 

 name of hengalensis. 



The distribution of the Hedgehogs so far as it is known is a 

 curiously interrupted one. Hedgehogs have been obtained by this 

 survey in Cu.tch, and have been otherwise authentically reported 

 from Kajputana ( at least the northern half) and Delhi, but 

 between this and the extreme south of Madras, where they have 

 been often taken, there is no record of any hedgehog — Mr. Crump 

 records frequently in his notes that he has made enquiries, but has 

 found no one who knew them. They have been recorded from the 

 lower Himalaj^as, bat the record is somewhat doubtful. 



