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and sand having when diy a very soft and light appearance but 

 becoming quite firm after a shower of rain. A variety of crops are 

 raised, the principal appearing to be wheat while on the outskirts of 

 the town large vegetable gardens are general. 



Fine Mango groves adorn the town but the surrounding country 

 is bare of forest. 



The collection is a comparatively large one consisting of 65 

 species, belonging to 48 genera. It was made in a country so near 

 and so physically similar to Nepal that we could confidently expect 

 to find in it many forms representing names recorded by Hodgson. 

 Nor have we been disappointed for already we have been able to 

 identify 16 forms described by Hodgson or collected by him, viz., a 

 monkey, three bats, three shrews, two carnivors and no less than 

 seven rodents ; moreover in not a few other cases, in which we were 

 in doubt, we can now confidently say that Hodgson's names cannot 

 stand. The collection is further interesting in that, to a consider- 

 able extent, it deals with a Fauna largel}^ difiering from any hitherto 

 dealt with by the survey. This Fauna is linked with the European 

 by the presence of the vole and Himalayan field mouse, and manjr 

 of the bats. The mouse hares belong to a genus characteristic of 

 and almost limited to the Himalayas. The remainder of the forms 

 are congeners of those which we have already obtained from Lower 

 India and Ceylon. 



Mr. Crump desires to record his indebtedness for all manner of 

 assistance, which has enabled him to obtain such good results, 

 received from the following gentlemen : — 



Colonel A. C. Hickley, l/3rd Q. A. 0., Gurkha Eifles. 



C. E. D. Peters, Esq., I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner of Almora. 



T. Canning, Esq., Deputy Conservator of Forestry, Almora. 



E. A. Smythies, Esq., Deputy Conservator of Forests, Naini Tal. 



E. H. H. Edge, Esq., Deputy Commissioner, Naini Tal. 



E.R. Stevens, Esq., Deputy Conservator of Forests, Ramnagar, 

 and specially to Major F. Wall, I.M.S., l/3rd Gurkha Rifles. 

 Miss K. V. Ryley had already mapped out and partially written 

 this report before she fell ill and had to leave. 



PiTHEcus RHESUS, Audeb. 

 The Bengal Monkey. 

 (Synonym;^ in No. 7.) 

 S 2,$1, 2 skulls only, Bageswar, 3,200': c?2, $1, Ratighat, 

 3,700' ; c? 1, Sitabani, 2,000' ; c? 1, $ 1, 2 skulls, Ramnagar, 

 1,100'; c?l, Dela Ramnagar, 1,500' ; Si, Jerna Ramnagar, 

 1,500'. 



{See also Reports Nos. 7 and 14.) 

 " Among the outer ranges this monkey is more abundant than the Saugar 

 and during the cold weather is found in large numbers up to about 4,000 

 feet; above this it becomes less numerous but was observed by me as high as 



