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BOMBAY Natural history society's 



MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 

 Report by R. C. Wroughton, F.Z.S. 



Collection 

 Locality ... 

 Date 



Collected by 

 Earlier Report 



No. 2. 



Berars. 



May- June, 1911. 



Mr. C. A. Crump. 



No. 1, E. Khandesh, 



Vol. XXI, p. 392 (1912).. 



This collection was made in the northern part of the Berars, 

 commonly known as the Melghat. The country is hilly, and, for 

 the most part, well wooded, the forest being composed of teak 

 mixed with bamboos, and with sundrj^ other trees commonly found 

 associated with it, many of Avhich are evergreen. The subsoil is 

 the Dekhan trap rock, and the crops raised are for the most part 

 those used for local consumption, such as ' nagii ' and ' bajjri. ' 

 The climate too is very much the same as that of the Dekhan. 

 Some of the specimens were taken at Ellichpur and represent the 

 Fauna of the broad valley known as the Paj^anghat, forming the 

 large bulk of the Berars. Here we find great alluvial black soil 

 plains producing cotton and jowari, whose only tree growth is 

 patches of babhul. 



The collection is a small one, comprising 69 specimens belonging 

 to 22 species in 17 genera. 



For the most part the species are the same as those contained in 

 the Khandesh collection. Most of those that have been added to 

 the earlier list represent the Fauna of a more jungl^^ countrj^, e.g.,- 

 the Flj-ing Squirrel, the Wild Dog, the Palm Squirrel, the" 

 Barking Deer, and the Four-horned Antelope. 



Pkbsbyxis entellits, Dufr. 

 The common Languv. 



(For synonymy, see Report No. 1.) 

 cJ 164. Chikalda, Berars. 



