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SECOND YABKAND MISSION. 
Rodentia. 
Ardomys caudatus. 
A. himalayanus. 
Mas mblimis. 
Arvicola blythi. 
Arvicola stoliczhanus. 
Lepus tibetanus. 
L. kypsibiw. 
Lagomys ladacensis. 
Lagomys auritus. 
Ungulata. 
jEqtms hemionus. 
Bos gnmniens. 
Ovis hodgsoni, [0. ammon, auet., nec Linn.) 
0. vignei. 1 
Ovis nahura. 
Capra sibirica. 
Pantholops hodgsoni. 
Gazella pidicaudata. 
The isabelline bear, stag, and a few other animals, which inhabit Kashmir, occasionally 
cross the mountains into Ladak, and may be found in Dras and Zanskdr, hut they are not 
permanent inhabitants of the Tibetan region, and cannot he included in the fauna. The 
musk deer may be Tibetan, and Mr. Lydekker 2 is inclined to think it is so, as he has seen 
skins said to have been procured in Ladak, and the animal has a Tibetan name ; but I have 
been unable to find that any one has actually seen the species wild in Tibet. 
Eor comparison with the Western Tibetan fauna, the following list of the mammals? 
hitherto recorded as found in Eastern Tibet, 3 may be useful. I carefully exclude the numerous 
species mentioned by Hodgson, Blyth, and Pere David, which are palpably forest forms? 
inhabiting comparatively low elevations (below 10,000 feet above the sea). These species 
come from the portions of Eastern Tibet which are south of the main Himalayan range, and 
which enjoy a damp climate. 
Carnivora. 
Felis unda. 
F. manul. 
F. isabcllina. 
Canis laniger. 
C. ( Cuon ) alpinus. 
C. ( Vulpes) flavescens. 
Canis [Vulpes) ferrilaius. 
Martes tonfeea. 
Mustela erminea. 
M. temon. 
Putorius larvatus, (. P . eversmanni, teste Gray) . 
Ur ms pruinosus . 
Rodentia. 
Ardomys hmalayanus , (A. robustm). 
Sciurus europceus ? 
Lepus palUpes. 
Fquus hemionus. 
Bos gnmniens. 
Ovis hodgsoni. 
Lepus oiostolus (perhaps the same as L. palUpes) ■ 
Lagomys curzonioe. 
L. tibetanus (perhaps the same as the last) . 
Ungulata. 
O. nahura. 
Capra sibirica. 
Pantholops hodgsoni. 
Gazella pidicaudata. 
Perhaps Budorcas taxicolor, Moschus moschiferus, and Cervus a ffirm should be added, but I 
have grave doubts whether any of them are found on the Tibetan plateau. 
1 Another large sheep, O. brookei, described P. Z. S., 1874, p. 143, is founded on a skull supposed by its describer, Mr- 
Ward, to have been brought from Leh in Ladak ; but no additional specimens have been obtained to confirm the locality 
2 J. A. S. B., 1877, xlvi, Pt. 2, p. 288. 
3 My principal authorities L'or this list are Blyth’s Catalogue of Mam mals in the Museum, Asiatic Society ; Jerdon’s 
of India ; the Catalogues of Hodgson’s Mammals presented to the British Museum ; and Pere David’s List of Eastern Tibetan 
Chinese Mammalia in the Nouvelles Archives du Museum, Vol. vii, Bulletin p. 91. For some remarks on these authorities and 
the, Tibetan mammalian fauna, see P. Z. S., 1876, p. 631. 
