MAMMALIA. 



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height of the third, and its length is equal to that of the outer incisor and canine together. 

 The outer incisor is very small ; less than the canine. 1 All the teeth are white. 



Met. Inch. 



Length of skull -017 0-74 



Do. of bony palate in front of posterior nares . . . *008 0'32 

 Breadth of skull where broadest near occiput . . . '008 034 



Length of mandible (incisors not included) . . . '009 0'38 



The ahove description is taken from the only specimen in the collection, a female. It 

 was obtained at Leh on the 9th September, and appears fairly adult, though the basi-occi- 

 pital suture has not disappeared. All the teeth are fully grown. The species appears nearly 

 allied to S. guldenstaedtii of Pallas, 3 but that is differently coloured (dusky ash), larger, 

 and is said to have very small ears. Another closely affined form is S.fumigatus of De 

 Pililppi 3 from Northern Persia, but that is dark lead colour above, ashy beneath. The tail 

 is proportionately much shorter in S. myoides than in any Himalayan species with which I 

 am acquainted belonging to true Crocidura, or than in the Tenasserim S. fuliginosus. 4 * 



A species of shrew was observed near Lake Lob by Prejevalski, but it has not yet been 

 described. 



Order CARNlVORA. 

 Family— FELIBM. 



9. Pelis catus. 



Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 1766, i. p. 62. 



Yawa mashak, Turki of Yarkand (Scully). 

 A skin of a wild cat, without the skull, brought by Dr. Scully from Eastern Turkestan, 

 agrees very well with that of the common wild cat of Europe, except that the tail tapers 

 instead of being cylindrical, and that the dark marks are rather indistinct. The bars on the 

 tail and legs correspond with those of F. catus. 



10. Pelis shawiana. Pis. Ib. Ic. 

 W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1870, xlv, Pt. 2, p. 49. 



F. sp. near F. pardinus ( ? Chans oaudatus, Gray.) W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 106. 

 Molun, Turki of Yarkand. 



Fells P. domesticam magnitudine superans, ad P. chaus proxime accedens ; griseo-fulca, 

 nigro-maculata, subtus alba atque maculis nigris majoribus ornata ; caudd breviusculd, 

 supra, apicem versus, nec infra, tiigro-transfasciatd, cranio elongato, ei P. viverrinse simili, 

 vellere molli, basin versus pallide purpurascenti-griseo : longitudine (sc. pellis) sine caudd 

 bipedali, Cauda? 7—8 unc, cranii 4:25. 



1, Skin without skull or feet, purchased in Yarkand. 



Amongst the collections made by Dr. Stoliczka in Eastern Turkestan, was an imperfect 

 skin of a cat. Although I thought it probable that it belonged to an undescribed form, 

 there was a bare possibility that it might be a specimen of a species inhabiting Western 



1 The names of the teeth are in accordance with the determinations by Brandt, Zool. Record, 1866, p. 26, and Bull. Soc. Hist. 



Nat. Mosc, xli, pp. 76-95. 



2 Zoog. Ros. As., i, p. 132, pi. IX, fig. 1. 



3 Arch. p. la Zool. Genova, ii, p. 379 ; Note di un Viaggio in Persia, p. 343. 



4 Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxiv, p. 362. 



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