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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOOIETY'8 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Report by R. C. Wroughton, f.z.s. 



Collection ... ... No. 5. 



Locality ... ... Uharwar. 



Date ... ... November-December 1911, Feb- 



ruary-March 1912. 

 Collected by... ... Mr. G. 0. Shortndge. 



Earlier Reports ... No. 1, E. Khandesh, 



Vol. XXI, p. 392. 



No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 820. 



No. 3, Cutch, Vol. XXI, p. 826. 



No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 844. 



Dharwar, the district in which the pres3nt collection was 



made, is situated about 15° 30' N. Lat. and 76"-' E. Long. At 



the commencement of the last century Sir W. Elliot, I.O.S., 



collected the mammals of this district and published a paper on 



them in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 1839. As 



a description of the district I cannot do better than reproduce 



here the Introduction to his paper. 



" The district of India, in which the animals contained in the 

 following list were procured, is a part of the high tableland 

 towards the south of the Dekhan, commonly called the Southern 

 Mahratta Country, and constitutes the British zillah of Dharwar. 

 It ought, likewise, geographically speaking, to include the small 

 province of Sunda, which, according to the political arrangement 

 of the country, is placed iTnder the zillah of Oanara, in the 

 Presidency of Madras."* 



" The general boundaries are the rivers Kistnah and Bhima on 

 the north and north-east ; the Tungabhadra river on the south ; the 

 Nizam's territory on the east, and the Syhadri range of mountains 

 on the wesfc. The latter are generally called the Ghats " 



* Since this description was published tha boaadary of the D-ia;vvar District hai 

 been poshed back eastwards and tie area raferred to in this para- is new paa't ox 

 the Kanara District which will be daalt with in my naxt iiej^o^t — E. C. W. 



