NEW STAG FROM TIBET. 



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1893.] 



species peculiar to this tract of elevated country, aud the list of 

 these Mammals as amended may be of interest to Zoologists. It 

 is therefore added here. 



Mammalia of the Tibetan Plateau. 



Insectivora. 



Crocidura aranea. 

 \Nectogale elegans. 



Carnivora. 



Felis manid. 



F. lynx. 



F. uncia. 

 *Paradoxurus laniger. 



Canis lupus, var. laniger. 



Vulpes alopex, var. flavescens. 

 *V.ferrilatiis. 



Cyon deccanensis, var. 



Mustela foina, Tar. 

 *Piitorius larvatus. 

 *P. canigula. 



P. alpinus, var. temon. 



P. erminia. 

 *Meles leucura. 

 *M. albogularis ? 

 i^luroptts melanoleiicus. 

 * Ursus pruinosus. 



RODENTIA. 



iEupetaurus cinereus. 

 *Arctomys himalayanus. 

 *A. robustus. 



RoDENTiA — continued. 



*Mus sublimis. 



*Microtus (Arvicola) blythi. 



*M. strauchi. 



*M. (Eremiomys) przevalskii, 



Siphneusjontanieri. 

 *Lagomys ciirzonice. 

 *L. rutiltis. 

 *L. erythrotis. 

 »L. melanostomus. 

 *L. ladacensis. 

 *Le/jus oiostolus. 

 *L. hypsibius. 



TJngulata. 



Equws hemiomis, \ar. kiang. 

 *Bos gnmniens. 

 *Ovis hodgsoni. 



0. vignei, var. 

 *0. nahura. 



Copra sibirica. 

 iPantholops hodgsoni. 

 fBudorcas taxicolor ? 

 *Gazella picticaudata. 

 *Cervus affinis. 

 *C. thoroldi. 

 Moschics moschiferus. 



In this list * signifies a peculiar species, t 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 

 gnmniens, Ovis hodgsoni, Pantholops hodgsoni, and Gazella picti- 

 caudata, with several rodents, appear to be peculiar to the high 

 plateaus above 14,000 feet, the two species of Gervus are probably 

 found in brushwood at a rather lower elevation in the more broken 

 regions of Eastern 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 I am aware, no equally peculiar mammalian fauna 

 to be found in any continental area of equal extent, and for a 

 parallel it is necessary to turn to some island like Celebes, that 

 has long been isolated from all surrounding lands. 



