180 ON MAMMALS FROM WESTERN CHINA. 



It is with great pleasui^e that I name a Chinese animal aftei' 

 Pere David, the famous French naturaKst and collector, to whom 

 Science owes the discovery of the wonderful series of animals 

 on wdiich Milne-Edwards's ' Reeherches Mammiferes ' was based. 

 Kuatun, the locality of Rhizomys davidi, was itself discovered as 

 :i collecting-station by Pere David, though we owe its more recent 

 exploitation to our own countrymen. 



43. Lepus sechuenensis de Wint. 



d. 2258, 2261. $. 2259. 30 miles N.W. of Tau-chow, 

 Kan-su. 11,000'. 



Although described as from Sze-chwan, it is probable that this 

 species really belongs to the fauna N. and N.W. of the Tsin-ling 

 range. The type was said to be from NoHh-viestern Sze-chwan, 

 and that part of the Province extends into the faunistic region 

 of which Kan-su is a part. No Hare is as yet known from the 

 typical forested area of Western Sze-chwan. 



44. OcHOTONA CANSA Lyon. 



5 . 2236, 2243, 2248, 2249. ? . 2226, 2244, 2247. Mts. S.E. 

 of Tau-chow, Kan-su. 



Tau-chow (Tao-eheo) is the type locality of Dr. Lyon's species. 



45. OcHOTONA TIBETANA, M.-Edw. 



6 . 2325. $ . 2324. 23 miles S.E. of Ta-tsien-lu, Sze-chwan. 

 10,000'. 



c^. 2387. Ta-tsien-lu. 11,600'. 

 d. 2525. Omi-san. 9500'. 



These specimens indicate that 0. tihetana has a wide range of 

 colour- variation, very much as in the allied 0. hodgsoni. 



46. Capreolus bedfordi Thos. 



S . 2203, 2205, 2207, 2210. 9 . 2204, 2208, 2209. 60 miles 

 S.E. of MiH-chow, Kan-su. 8000'. 



47. MOSCHUS SIFANICUS Blichn. 



2 (immature). 2223. 10 miles S. of Tau-chow, Kan-su. 8500'. 

 The first example of this striking species that has come to the 

 British Museum. 



48. Gazella sp. 



cJ (young). 2260. 30 miles N.W. of Tau-chow, Kan-su. 11,000'. 



