1S75.J inhabiting the Himalaya, Tibet, and the adjoining regions. 121 



different and probably undescribed species, which should be looked for in 

 Afghanistan. It is very possibly the form mentioned by Dr. Griffith as 

 seen by him at the Hageeguk, Kaloo, and Erak passes,* and also briefly 

 referred to in Sir Alexander Bufnes' ' Cabool.'f 



It is useless to refer to the various notes by travellers, on the marmots 

 observed by them, in the hope of ascertaining the distribution of the differ- 

 ent species, since the external differences are, as a rule, not sufficient to render 

 the brief descriptions given characteristic of any particular kind, and the 

 task of determining the exact range of each species must be left to future 

 research. I shall conclude this paper by giving the names and the synonymy, 

 so far as I have been able to unravel it, of the four species, the existence of 

 which in the Himalayas and the neighbouring ranges to the north-west 

 I consider probable, merely adding that in all probability another species, 

 hitherto undescribed, inhabits Afghanistan. I am quite at a loss to con- 

 ceive what is the form with large ears represented in Hooker's ' Himalayan 

 Journals,'! and which is said to migrate sometimes in swarms from Tibet 

 to Upper Sikkim. Certainly, no known Himalayan marmot approaches this 

 animal in the structure of the ears§. 



Section 1. — Short-tailed marmots having the tail less than one third the 

 length of the head and body. 

 1. Akctojiys Himalayanus. 



A. Himalayanus, Hodgson, J. A. S. B., 1841, X, p. 777. 



" A. Himalayanus of Catalogue, potius Tibetensis hodie," Hodgs., J. A. S. B., 1843, 

 XII, p. 409. 



"A. bobae, Schreb." partim, Gray, List of the specimens of Mammaha in the col- 

 lection of the British Museum, 1843, p. 148, nee Schreber. 



"A. bobae, Gmelin'', Gray, Cat. spec. &c. Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet 



presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. to the British Museum, p. 23, (1846) ; nee Gmelin. 



lb. 2nd Edition, p. 12, (1863). 



? A. Ta.taricus, Jameson, L'Instit. 1847, XV, p. 384. 



" A. bobae, Schreb." Horsf. Catalogue of Mammalia in the India House Museum, 

 p. 164, (1851) ; nee Schreber. 



"A. Tibetanus, Hodgs." white marmot of Europeans, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 521. 



"A. bobae, Schreb." partim Blyth, Cat. Mam. Mus. As. Soc, p. 108, (1863) ; nee 

 Schreber. 



"A. bobae, Schreb." Jerdon, Mammals of India, p. 18, (1867), nee Schreber. 



" A. Tataricus, Jameson," Fitzinger, Sitzungsb. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867, LV, 1, 

 p. 491. 



* See note on page 114. 

 t p. 163. 



X Vol. II, pp. 109, 170, smaller edition. 



§ I cannot help feeling some doubt as to whether the animal figured is a marmot 

 at all. 



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