858 Ml?. OLDFIKLl) THOMAS ON [Nov. 27, 



3. The Uiiko of Bedfonrs Zoolooical Exploration in Eastei-n 

 Asia. — 11. List of Small Mannnals from Korea and 

 Qiu'lpart. By Oldfirld Th()1\[as, F.ll.S. 



[Received October 9, lOOli.J 



After the coinpletiou of tlie inagniiieeiit Japanese collection 

 which formed the subject of the iirst papei- of the present series*, 

 i\'[v. M. P. Anderson went in August 1905 to the Island of 

 Quelpart, and fvoni there to Korea, where he spent the autumn 

 and early winter. 



Owing, however, to various local ditiiculties and to the un- 

 favourable nature of the country, he was not able in Korea to 

 make anything like a complete collection ; the species he obtained, 

 although repi'esented by no less than 130 skins, numbering 

 only 9, mostly Mice and Shrews ; so that the pi-esent must be 

 looked upon as merely a pi'eliminary contribution to our know- 

 ledge of Korean Mannnals. But such species as he did get are 

 of nnich interest, and no less than four of the nine a.re new. 

 Later on it is to be hoped that he may revisit Koi'ea, and, finding- 

 some locality less ban-en oi' less cultivated, he may be able to get 

 a more complete representation of the fauna. 



The most interesting of the new species is the handsome red- 

 backed Yole, Craseomijs regains, which represents in Korea the 

 Japanese species C bedfordiir and aiidersoni. Of the Murida?, 

 Micro))) i/s speciosiis is present and dominant, as in Japan, but 

 instead of having as a companion the little d/. geigha, the place 

 of the latter is taken by an immigrant from f ui'ther west, a mouse 

 of the J/, ((g)-aru's type, not found in Japan. 



With regard to Quelpart, that island has hitherto been a 

 tet'ra incoij)uta to mammal ogists, as to most other zoologists, and 

 from its size and position seemed likely to contain a vaiied and 

 intei'esting fauna. It has thei-efore been a great disappointment 

 to find that it possesses almost no mammals, as may be gathered 

 from the following extract from a. letter of Mr. Andei'sou : — 



'■ The island is most intei'esting, but the iiumbei' of mammals 

 is very small. I was only able to secure a, mouse and a, weasel. 

 There exist besides a deer, a boar, and a badger, which I hunted 

 perse veii ugly, but was unable to get. There is no hare or I'abbit 

 in the island, no marten, no squirrel, no wolf or fox, no be^r, 

 though the last has been stated to be there. ISTo signs of moles 

 or shrews were found. No form of wild-cat is known," 



From so good and experienced a collectoi' as Mr. Anderson 

 this verdict may be accepted as final. 



The species obtained were Pidoruts sihi)-ici(S and Jfic)-oi)>i/s 

 ag)'a)'ius ))}a))tchuriGus, the pi-esence of the latter giving empliatic 

 evidence of the Koi-ean i-athei- than Japanese relationship of the 

 Quelpart fauna, such as it is. 



* P. Z. S. 1005, vol. ii. pp. 331-303, 



