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town to an altitude of 4,026 feet, with the exception of these hills, 

 which form quite an isolated patch, the country is quite flat, with 

 red sandy soil. The district is naturally almost treeless, but trees 

 have been planted very extensively in the district, and besides 

 fringing the roads, there are a considerable number of ' casuarina' 

 and other plantations. The rainfall is less than around Bangalore. 



Malur. — About fifteen miles West of Kolar Town, Kolar District. 



Nundydroog. — About 35 miles North- West of Kolar Town. 



Goromandel. — About 10 miles South-East of Kolar Town. Kolar 

 Gold Fields. 



Seringapatam. — About 10 miles from Mysore City. Altitude 

 2,338 feet, situated on an island between two branches of the 

 Oauvery river. The island is almost flat and entirely under culti- 

 vation, which consists chiefly of rice, well wooded with cocoanut 

 palms, wild fig, mango trees, etc, 



" French Rocks.'" — A group of bare rocky hills about two miles 

 to the North of Seringapatam. 



Sivasamudram (Oauvery Falls). — About 40 miles to the East of 

 Mysore City, on the North bank of the Cauvery river, which here 

 forms the boundary between Mysore State and Coimbatore. Alti- 

 tude about 2,500 feet. Country very hilly and rocky in places, and 

 except where there are patches of cultivation, very evenly covered 

 with thick scrub jungle. On the Coimbatore side of the river the 

 scrub is higher, while there are also patches of big forest and bam- 

 boo jungle. 



Among the larger mammals occurring in the district are Sambar, 

 Ohital, Four-horn Antelope, Bear, Panther, Tiger (rare) and Pig. 

 Simia sinica was fairly plentiful, and a ' Langur' said to exist on the 

 Coimbatore side of the river, is very probably ' Presbytis priamus; ' 

 otters occur in the river but are said to be rare and seldom seen. 



While in Mysore State, I received much assistance from the local 

 ofiicials, while H.H. the Maharaja was kind enough to grant me a 

 free license as well as permission to shoot in State forests." — G. C. S. 



The Collection includes 458 specimens, belonging to 37 species 

 in 27 genera. 



A large and representative series of the Mj^sore Slender Loris 

 was taken, also a great number of Bats representing 16 species. 

 Six Domestic Cats were obtained and it will be interesting to com- 

 pare the specimens from different villages in various parts of the 

 country. The Eodents include a large series of Funamhulus 

 pahnarum and a number of Cremnomys cutchicus, which appears 

 to be very common in Mysore State. There was also one Leggada 

 which does not seem to agree with any of the previously described 

 forms ; it resembles L. Cinderella in some respects, but has rather a 

 longer nose and redder fur, and as Cinderella was collected in Outch, 

 this one is probably a different form. 



