ON MAMMALS FROM CENTRAL CHINA, 687 



32. The Duke oE Bedford's Zoological Exploration of Eastern 

 Asia. — XIV. On Mammals from Southern Shen-si, 

 Central China. By Oldfield Thobias, F.R.S., F.Z.S.* 



[Received and Read April 25, 1911.] 



(Plate XXIX. t) 



As alread}' indicated in paper ISTo, XIII. of the present series |, 

 Mr. Malcolm Anderson and his party, working on behalf of the 

 Dake of Bedford, obtained a considerable number of mammals in 

 Southern Shen-si before going on to Kan-su and Sze-chwan, 

 whence the series described in that paper was collected. Owing 

 to delay in transport, however, a large pai-t of the Shen-si 

 collection has only recently arrived, and the diagnoses of Myotis 

 niyosotis aiicilla, Microtus nnx and M. Johannes § are all that have 

 been published upon it. . 



The present paper gives a list of all the specimens obtained in 

 S. Shen-si by Mr. Anderson between his second landing in China 

 in the autumn of 1909 and his move on into Kansu in 1910. 



The regions explored were, firstly, the district round Shang- 

 chou, S.E. Shen-si (about 33° 40' N., 110° 20' E.), and, secondly, 

 the important mountain Tai-pei-san (about 34° N., 107° 30' E.), 

 one of the sacred Chinese mountains, another being Omi-san, 

 Sze-chwan, where at a later period Mr. Anderson obtained the 

 many new species described in my Sze-chwan paper. 



Of the majority of the Shen-si specimens there is little new to 

 record, as Mr. Anderson had obtained the same species on 

 his previous visit to the more northern part of the province. But 

 in any case their intei^est is dwarfed by the discovery on Tai-pei- 

 san of a magnificent species of Takin, cpiite different from the 

 known W. Chinese species 5^tfZorcas i{jfieif«?iMs, and both in interest 

 and beauty one of the most striking ^mammals that it has ever 

 been my good fortune to describe. 



Besides this fine animal, of which a coloured figure is given 

 (PI. XXIX.), Mr. Anderson obtained a new Badger, a new Pika, 

 and a new Vole ||. 



1. Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum Schreb. 



$ . 2079, 2080, 2081. Shang-chou District, S.E. Shen-si. 



* Published bj' permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



t For explanation of the Plate see p. 695. 



X p. Z. S. 1911, p. 158. 



§ P. Z. S. 1910, p. 635. 



II The complete account of these new forms appears here, but the nataes and 

 preliminary dias^noses of the species undei'lined were published in the ' Abstract, 

 No. 95, 1911.— Editoe. 



