544 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
About a year ago, when discussing the geological age of the Central Asiatic 
highlands,? I had occasion to call attention to the remarkable specialization of 
the mammalian fauna inhabiting the Tibetan plateau. The stag now described 
adds another to the species peculiar to this tract of elevated country, and the 
list of these mammals as amended may be of interest to zoologists. 
therefore, added here. 
MAMMALIA OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU. 
INSECTIVORA. 
Crocidura aranea. 
}Nectogale elegans, 
CARNIVORA. 
Felis manul, 
F, lynx. 
FF, uncia. 
*Paradoxurus laniger. 
Canis lupus, var. laniger. 
Vulpes alopex, var. flavescens. 
*V. ferrilatus, 
Cyon deccanensis, var. 
Mustela foina, var. 
* Putorius larvatus, 
*P, canigula, 
P. alpinus, var, temon. 
P. erminia, 
* Meles leucura. 
* 1M, albogularis ? 
+luropus melanoleucus, 
* Ursus pruinosus, 
RODENTIA, 
}Lupetaurus cinereus. 
*Arctomys himalayanus, 
*A Srobustus. 
RoODENTIA—continued. 
*Mus sublimis. 
*Microtus (Arvicola) blythi. 
*M, strauchi. 
*M, (Eremiomys) preevalskii, 
Siphneus fontanier?, 
*Lagomys curzonie, 
*D, rutilus, 
*L, erythrotis. 
*L. melanostomus. 
*L. ladacensis, 
*Lepus otostolus, 
*L, hypsibius, 
UNGULATA. 
Equus hemionus, var, kiang, 
*Bos grunniens, 
*Ovis hodgsont. 
O, vignei, var. 
*0. nahura, 
Capra sibirica, 
tPantholops hodgsont. 
{Budorcas taxicolor ? 
*Gazella picticaudata, 
* Cervus affinis, 
*C, thoroldi, 
Moschus moschiferus. 
In this list * signifies a peculiar species, [| a peculiar genus ; that is, a species 
or genus not known to exist out of Tibet. 
This is a list of the mammals known to inhabit the plateau north of the 
Himalayas and south of the Kuenlun, Altyn Tag, and Nanshan, at elevations 
exceeding 12,000 feet. Many of the forms named only inhabit small portions 
of the area, and whilst Bos grunniens, Ovis hodgsoni, Pantholops hodgsoni and 
Gazella picticaudata, with several rodents, appear to be peculiar to the high 
plateaus above 14,000 feet, the two species of Cervus are probably found in 
brushwood at a rather lower elevation in the more broken regions of Hastern 
Tibet, where the rainfall is heavier and the vegetation more abundant. 
As was pointed out in the paper in the “ Geological Magazine,” there is, 
so far as 1 am aware, no equally peculiar mammalian fauna to be found in any 
continental area of equal extent, and fora parallel it is necessary to turn to 
some island like Celebes, that has long been isolated from all surrounding lands, 
1 Geological Magazine, April, 1892 (iii.), ix., p. 164; 
