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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. 



Insectivor.v. 



Crocidura aranea. 

 iNectogalc elegans. 



Carnitora. 



Felis manul. 

 F. lynx. 

 F. uncia. 

 *Paradoxun(s laniger. 

 Cants lupus, var. laniger. 

 Vulpes alopex, var. flavescens. 



* V. ferrilatus. 



Cyon deccanensis, var. 



Miistela foina, var. 

 *Putorius larvatus. 

 *P. canigula. 



P. alpinus, var. temon. 



P. erminia. 

 *Meleslencura. 

 *M. albogularis ? 

 f^Elu rop us mela noleuc u s. 



* Ursuspruincsus. 



RODENTIA. 



fEupetaurus cinereiis. 

 *Arctomys hinialayanus. 

 *A. rohustus. 



RoDEXTiA — continued. 



*Mus sublimis. 



*Microtus (Arvicola) hlythi. 



*M. straiichi. 



*M. (Eremiomys) przevalskii. 



Siphneusjontanieri. 

 *Lagomys curzonicB. 

 *L. rutUus. 

 *L. erythrotis. 

 *L. melanostomus. 

 *L. ladacensis. 

 *Leptis oiostolus. 

 *L. hypsihius. 



Ungulata. 



Equus hemioims, Tar. kiang. 

 *Bos grunniens. 

 *Ovis hodgsoni. 



0. vignei, var. 

 *0. nahura. 



Capra sibirica. 

 fPantholops hodgsoni. 

 iBudorcas taxicolor ? 

 *GazeUa picticaudata. 

 *Cervus affinis. 

 *C. thoroldi. 

 Moschus 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 

 grunniens, Ovis hodgsoni, Pantliolops hodgsoni., and Gazella picfi- 

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

 plateaus above 14,000 feet, the two species of Cervrts 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. 



