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SOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



Report No. 13. 



BY Kathleen V. Ryley. 



Collection ... ... No. 13. 



Locality ... ... S. Ceylon. 



Date ... ... March — June 1913. 



Collected by ... ... Major E. W. Mayor. 



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



p. 392, 1913 ; No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI., p. 844, 1912 ; No. 3, 

 Cutch, Vol. XXI, p. 826, 1912 ; No. 4, Nixnar, Vol. XXI, 

 p. 844, 1912 ; No. 5, Dharwar, Vol. XXI, p. 1170 ; No. 6, 

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

 XXII, p. 46, 1913 ; No. 8, Bellary, Vol. XXII, p. 58, 1913 ; 

 No. 9, Mysore, Vol. XXII, p. 283, 1913 ; No. 10, Kathiawar, 

 Vol XXII, p. 464, 1913 ; No. 11, Ooorg, Vol. XXII, p. 486, 1913 ; 

 No 12, Palanpur, Vol. XXII, p. 684, 1914. 

 This collection was made in the southern portion of Ceylon, 

 beginning with a few specimens from Colombo, the majority how- 

 ever were collected in the extreme south of the Island. Major 

 Mayor gives the following notes on the actual collecting stations : — 

 KottcL'wa, 8.F. — "About 10 miles inland from Galle, the ancient 

 port of Colombo, 280 feet above sea- level, there is a small rest- 

 house and one or two native huts. With the exception of a 

 stretch of original forest (evergreen jungle), which runs either 

 side of the road for a mile or so, the country is covered with 

 Chena jungle, very thickly matted with a kind of bracken. 

 'Chena" or " Hena" (Singalese) is the general name given to 

 once cultivated land or burnt down forest, on which the jungle 

 has been allowed to grow again. The rainfall is heavy and the 

 climate damp with a muggy heat — land leeches abound. 



I attribute the scarcity of small rodents and everything that 

 lives near the ground to the general prevalence of these leeches. 



Bats were very scarce. I only saw some small ones flying in the 

 evening. 



Galle has a very fine old Portuguese and Dutch Fort in good 

 preservation, with ramparts, two miles round, and quite a town 

 inside. 



Udugama, 8. P. — A small village with a rest-house on the banks 

 of the Gin-Ganya, about 16 miles N. of Kottawa, and at the end 

 of the road. The country is composed of small hills running up 

 to 500 or 600 feet, mostly rubber estates or deserted tea or coffee, 

 covered with Chena. Heavy storms, practically every day and 

 night; rainfall about this district to the end of March (1913) 

 over 40 inches and before the little S. W. Monsoon. In the 



