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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY'S 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Report No. 10. 

 BY Kathleen V. Ryley. 



With Field Notes hy the Collector G. A: GrumiJ. 



Collection ... ... No. 10. 



Locality ... ... Kathiawar. 



Date ... ... ... September 1912 — February 1913. 



Collected by ... ... Mr. C. A. Crump. 



Eakliek Reports . . No. 1, E. Khandesh, Vol. XXI, p. 392,, 



1912 ; No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 820, 1912 ; No. 3, Outch, 

 Vol. XXI, p. &26, 1912: No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 844, 1912; 

 No. 5, Dharwar, Vol. XXI, p. 1170, 1912 ; No. 6, Kanara, Vol. 

 XXII, p. 29, 1913 ; No. 7, Central Provinces, Vol. XXII, p. 45,. 



1913 ; No. 8, Bellary, Vol. XXII, p. 58, 1913 ; No. 9, Mysore,. 

 Vol. XXII, p. 295, 1913. 



The Honorable Mr. Claude Hill, CLE., late Agent to the- 

 Governor-General in" Kathiawar, has kindly written a general 

 description of the country as follows : — 



" The Province of Kathiawar is perhaps more interesting irrima 

 facie from the point of view of political history than from the point 

 of view of its physical conformation, having been the battle ground 

 of invading hordes from the west and north-west at dates perhaps 

 even anterior to those when the Punjab was the scene of Aryan 

 immigration, and having not even escaped the influences of the 

 Greek invasion four hundred years before the commencement of our 

 era. The study of its political history is one of the most interest- 

 ing chapters of the history of India. In relation, however, to the 

 ] nammal survey of the Province, certain prosaic facts are perhaps of 

 greater importance, even if they be of lesser general interest, than 

 the mythological happenings of the pre-historic era. 



It is an accepted hypothesis that the Province of Kathiawar, like 

 the State of Cutch, formed originally a portion of the delta of the 

 Indus, whose eastern branch in all probabilitj^ is traceable at the 

 present day in the Nal which forms part of the eastern boundary of 

 Kathiawar. Within the Province itself there are, however, two well- 

 marked ranges of hills, one running from south-east in a north-westerly 

 direction which has eminences at the Gitnar Mountain rising to an 

 elevation of some 3,000 feet, while the more northerly range 

 running roughly north and south, ris3S to its extreme height at 

 Chotila. For a description of the geological formation of the Pro- 

 vince, the inquirer should refer to the Kathiawar Volume of the 

 Provincial Gazetteer. But for present purposes it will suffice to say 

 that (as might be inferred from what has been said) the Province 

 varies in appearance from a sandy desert in the north-easterly> 



