TO MAMMALS. XIS 



and more on the Himalayas. Out of the fifteen Feline animals 

 found in India, five are common to India and Africa ; seven are 

 found in India and the Indo-Chinese region, but of these there are 

 three that only occur, in India, in the south-east Himalayas ; one 

 (the Ounce) is Himalayan, extending there from Central Asia, 

 and three (and these are the smallest of the family) are peculiar 

 to the plains of India, two of them occurring in the extreme south 

 of the peninsula, and the other in the north-west. The genus 

 Paradoxurus is strictly Asiatic, and more Malayan than Indian. 

 One species only is common in most parts of India, and there are 

 two in the Himalayas and adjoining Terai. Out of seven species of 

 Ilerpesles, a genus common to India and Africa, five are only found 

 in the southern portion of the peninsula, and four of these in the 

 extreme south. Of the Oivet Cats, one small species is found through- 

 out India, common also to Malayana ; and there is a large species 

 in Northern India, replaced in the extreme south by a different 

 race. Several pectiliar forms of Carnivora, viz., Arctongx, Ai'ctictis, 

 Helictis, TJrva, and Prionodon, are found in the South-east Hima- 

 layas, but they all extend there from the Indo-Chinese region. 



Of the Canidae, the Wolf, Jackal, and Wild Dog are found 

 throughout India, and two small desert Foxes are found throughout 

 the plains, whilst a Fox of the European type occurs in the Hima- 



Of the large Squirrels, three species or races occur in Southern 

 India, and one in the Eastern Himalayas, extending from the Indo- 

 Chinese district, and in the same region two closely allied races 

 of Squirrel are found of a type immensely developed in Assam, 

 Burmah, and Malayana, Three species of ground Squirrel are 

 found in Southern India, one of which extends to the foot of the 

 Himalayas, and another to Central India ; and one small species is 

 found in the eastern Himalayas spreading to Assam. Only two 

 species of Flying Squirrel are met with in Southern India, one of 

 them limited to the extreme south of the peninsula, the other ex- 

 tending through Central India; but several species are found in 

 the Himalayas. Marmots only occur on the same range, being 

 outliers from Central Asia. 



