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BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S 

 MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



Report No. 16. 



By R. C. Wroughton. 



Collection ... ... No. 16. 



Locality ... ... Dry Zone, Central Burma and 



Mt. Popa. 



Date Jnly-October 1913. 



Collected by ... ... Mr. G. C. Shortridge. 



Eaeliek Reports No. 1, E. Khandesh, Vol. XXI, p. 392, 



1912 ; No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 820, 1912 ; No. 3, Cutch, 

 Vol. XXI, p. 826, 1912 ; No. 4, Nimar, Vol. XXI, p. 

 944, 1912 ; No. 5, Dharwar, Vol. XXI, p. 1170, 1912 ; No. 

 6, Kanara, Vol. XXII, p. 29, 1913 ; No. 7, Central Pro- 

 vinces, Vol. XXII, p. 45, 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, Coorg, 

 Vol. XXII, p. 486, 1913 ; No. 12, Palanpur, Vol. XXII, 

 p. 684, 1913 ; No. 13, South Ceylon, Vol. XXII, p. 700, 



1913 ; No. 14, Shan States, Vol. XXII, p. 710, 1913 ; No. 

 15, Kumaon, Vol. XXII, p. 282, 1914. 



This collection represents the Fauna of the Dry Zone of Upper 

 Burma, and the local Fauna of Mt. Popa. This Dry Zone is 

 represented roughly by the Districts of Shwebo, Lower Ohindwin, 

 Mandalay, Pakokku, Mying^^an, Sagaing, Kyaukse, Meiktila, 

 Minbii, Magwe and Yamethin. It covers about 35,000 square 

 miles, and occupies the whole basin of the Irrawady, between the 

 Arakan Yomas and Chin Hills on the West and the Shan Hills on 

 the East, frdin about 20° to 23° North Latitude. 



The whole of this area may be classed as ' plain country ,' with a 

 scanty rainfall of about 25 inches, except on its outer edges where 

 the climatic conditions are modified by the surrounding hilly 

 country. The thermometer ranges from 105° in May to 55° in 

 December. With the exception of the neighbourhood and slopes 

 of Mt. Popa, the jungle consists almost entirely of dry scrub 

 growth, the only tree of anj value being the Acacia catechu, 

 yielding the ' cutch ' of commerce. Mt. Popa is an isolated 

 volcanic peak, rising abruptly from the surrounding plain, in the 

 middle of the Dry Zone. It reaches a height of close on 5,000 feet 

 and as was to be expected the climatic conditions are considerably 

 modified on its wooded slopes. 



The following notes on the camps visited are furnished by 

 Mr. Shortridge : — 



Mandalay City. — Population 183,816. The Head-quartei-s of the 

 District and Division of the same name. Situated on the East 

 bank of the Irrawady, about 21° 50' North and 96° 6' East. The 



