^ MAMMALIA. 3 
Kashglia r ^ aw an< ^ Hayward, who, independently of each other, penetrated to 
uamed officer • • . ’ ^ r ‘ Scully, who accompanied Mr. Shaw to Kashghar, when jthe last 
journeys ho 6 C0Un Hy a second time in 1874 ; and Colonel Prejevalski, whose 
accounts haTe T* 5 Wei6 cn ^ r( % to the eastward of Kashghar and Yarkand. Excellent 
ma y he found • <>( '” Polished of most of the visits. 1 Occasional references to the fauna 
s Pecial attentionT ^ em ’ Hut the only travellers, except Dr. Stoliczka, who paid 
me dical officer^ ° zoolo °y °t the country, were Dr. Henderson, who was attached as 
P a ttied Mr Sin, e . ^fst mission under Sir Douglas Eorsyth, Dr. Scully, who accom- 
pt Colonel Pre -fl ^^fpophar capacity, and Colonel Prejevalski. The detailed zoological results 
’t Puhlis]i e( [ ^ a S ^' 8 j 0UTnc y to Lake Lob and the Altyn mountains in Eastern Turkestan, 
the offid a } ren^ ^ ^ reac *' ec t India, hut lists of the larger mammals noticed are given in 
these notices 1 * ° his journey, which has been translated into German and English.® In 
and Dr. Scully ^ -i 6r ’ ^ le species are naturally not critically determined. Both Dr. Henderson 
Ver y interesting' CS t )eo ' a i attention to birds, although both brought away with them some 
() y Dr. j a o mammals. Some of the rodents procured by Dr. Henderson were described 
s °Qie spedmg 0 eiS 1 ° n p n the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3 and notices of 
Writer 5 j u nS ° Gained by Dr. Scully were given by Mr. Wood-Mason 4 and the present 
thus describee! 0Urna ^ and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The specimens 
|°llowing. p ao> ’ g atL< t a tew others not hitherto mentioned in print, will be noticed in the 
30 ascertained 6S ^ 3S a singular fact, showing how much, in all probability, yet remains to 
^anunai s 0 0 j- c<3ncoi ming the fauna of Ladak and Yarkand, that of the seven species of 
ll ’ ee are renr liC 1 s l >e(ai ueus were procured in those countries by Dr. Henderson, only 
A-l tb o n f S j f ' 11 3n thp collections made by Dr. Stoliczka. 
! n , U( 'h more rec a 1 ^ ^ ^ een Yi sited and described by numerous travellers, there is not 
3 He indeed C an°i ^ conceri u n g its fauna than is to be found in occasional notes. Yery 
s J'h, and one „ e Shaped from Moorcroft. 7 Yigne 8 noticed a few of the mammals met 
a ° e ly to botany 0 i 6 ' V1 ^ s heep has been named after him. Thomson 9 devoted himself 
°hapter to the^' Sc arct hy referred to any of the animals observed ; but Cunningham 10 gave 
j, lr ° c kinds of -i T ^ anam als of Ladak, amongst which he mentioned the kyang, wild yak, 
° X ’ hare, lar^^! S ^ ee I J ’ markhor, ibex, Tibetan stag, musk deer, leopard, bear, wolf, 
° 'I s ’ Baarinot, and weasel. Some of these animals cannot, however, be 
1 tr* . 
ftob< 
Ho 
Vis 
>8lt to JJjgk ,p . 
j ( u ^‘ 1 ' v : London l&Ji ^ ar kand ana Kashghar, formerly Chinese Tartary, and return journey over the Karakoram Pass. By 
r ney f ro — - - ’ • 
=>• -Soc., lyy ( j , ana Kashghar, and exploration of the sources of the Yarkand river. By G. W. Hayward ; Jour. 
diQote to ^ P* 
*876, p^ 4 ]° U *' ri * iu fion to th^ f ' cor " c Henderson, m. d., and Allan 0. Hume, c. b. : London, 1873. 
p 2 Prz,. w ^ U rn 'thology of Eastern Turkestan. By J. Scully, Surgeon, Bengal Army. Stray Feathers, iv, 
3 On^' 1 ,ll ' ros3 the Tian S] 3/0 ^' Ilor una Altyn-Tag, 1876-77 ; Petermann’s Mittheilungen, Erganzungsheft No. 53, 1878.— 
4 P I"'" 0 Rodents v',' Loh-nor by Colonel N. Prejevalslcy ; translated by E. Delrnar Morgan : London, 1879. 
5 J - A.'s'b ’ - 1876 ’ P. 80 kand ’ P - Z - S - 1871 > P- 559 ‘ 
Th, 
;il!! 76,X L V > P t. 2 
Var '’ ai >d zl 8pecies w <*e Erinte P ' 49 5 1877, Pt 2 > P- 259 ‘ 
7 Tree f iniys la davensi s "'v\ " lbulws > Mustela temon ?, M. erminea, Arc.tomys himalayanus, A. caudatus, Lepus pallipes 
° Travel , S - 111 Himalaya,, j , ' ' 9lst " ana the two last were obtained also by Dr. Stoliczka. 
Wa B f S 10 ^ aB hinir T,n ' uv ‘ nces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, &c., 1841, p. 
■ -ss* fc " i! - " ” 
’ an< ^ historical, with notices of the surrounding countries : London, 1854, p. 195. 
311. 
