302 MR. J. L, BONHOTE ON MAMMALS FROM TIBET, [| Noy. 14, 
in 1738, 2 ft. 4 in. high”) was thrown on the screen to prove that 
as early. as 1746 the Satyr us mdicus was recognised as differing 
from the Chimpanzee. This picture was said £0 have been taken 
from life. 
It was usually said that the existence of an African anthropoid 
other than the Chimpanzee was not known till about the middle 
of the last century. This was not the opinion of J. E. Gray ; for 
ata scientific meeting of this Society *, in calling attention to 
Wombwell’s Gorilla, he alluded, but without quotation, to 
Bowdich’s ‘ Mission to Ashantee’” (London, 1819), where the 
“ African Orang (Pithecus Troglodites)” was compared with the 
Ingena. 
The following papers were read :— 
On a Collection of Mammals brought home by the Tibet 
Frontier Commission. By J. Lewis Bonnorr, M.A., 
abuses I /AgSi 
[ Received August 9, 1905. | 
(Text-figures 52 & 53.) 
The collection: of mammals brought home by the Tibet 
Mission, and collected by Capt. H. J. Walton of the Indian Medical 
Service, although not large in numbers contains several specimens 
of great interest, and there can be no doubt but that the region 
is full of mammalian treasures, only waiting time and opportunity 
for their discovery. 
Of the eight species of which examples were brought back, two, 
Microtus waltoni and Cricetulus lama, ave new to science, while 
the large red Fox of the country is sufficiently distinct to be 
entitled to subspecifie rank. In addition to these, I have been 
enabled for the first time to examine the skull of another Fox, 
Vulpes ferrilatus, described 63 years ago, but of which the skull- 
characters have hitherto remained entirely unknown, This skull 
shows features of great peculiarity, and proves the validity of 
Jerrilatus as a species, a matter hitherto considered doubtful by 
some writers. 
In addition to the specimens collected by Capt. Walton, the 
British Museum is indebted to Col. Waddell for two or three skins, 
an account of which has also been incorporated in this paper. 
FELIs MANUL Pall. 
Felis manul, Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs, ii p. 692 (1776); 
Blanf. Faun. Br. Ind., Mamm. p. 83 (1891). 
* P.Z.S. 1861, p. 278. 
+ [The complete account of the new forms described in this communication appears 
here; but since the names and preliminary diagnoses were published in the 
‘ Abstract,’ the former are distinguished by being underlined.—Hp1Tor. | 
TA sketch- -map giving all the localities j in which this collection was procured is 
published j in ‘The Ibis’ (1905, p. 57, pl. u.). 
