8 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
That this list is very imperfect is unquestionable, and it is probable that many species 
remain to be added. It is not likely that the skins purchased in the bazaars of Yarkand a nC 
Kashgliar came from other countries ; but as it is uncertain whether they were obtained & 
the plains or amongst the mountains, their names are not included in either list, unless other 
evidence of the habitat is forthcoming. The following species are thus represented 
skins or horns purchased in the towns mentioned : — 
Felts lynx. 
Cams, sp., indet. 
C. ( Vulpes) , sp., indet. 
Maries Iciicolachneea. 
Meles , sp., nov. 
Capreolus pygargus. 
Wild camels are also found in the deserts east of Kashghar near Lob Nor. The occur- 
rence of these animals was mentioned by Shaw (High Tartary, &c., p. 168), Hayward (J- 
G. S., 1870, xl, p. 134), Prejcvalski (Petermann, Mitheilungen, 1874, p. 42), and others; ah 
specimens have recently been obtained by the last-named traveller. The animal is said to b e 
a small form of the two-humped or Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus ; but there are doub $ 
whether the animals found in the Turkestan desert are aboriginally wild, or merely the fd a 
descendants of tame animals, abandoned or lost in the desert. 
The following were the mammals observed by Colonel Prejevalski 1 around Lob-nor, an 
on the lower Tarim, the river formed by the junction of the Yarkand and other streams 0 
Eastern Turkestan. The names in parentheses are those used in the present work : — 
Tigris r eg alls (Fells tigris), common, locally abun- Lepus sp. ( ? L. yarkandensis) , tolerably conl 
dant. mou. . 
Meriones sp. ( ? Gerbillus cryptorkinus), local) 
common, 
Mus sp. (? M. pachycercus) , not common. 
Camelus bactrianus, ferns, to the east of Lob-u° r ’ 
rare in tlie sandy deserts on the Lower Tarn* 1, 
Cervus maral {? C. ajjinis), common. 
Antilope subgutturosa ( Gazella subgutlurosa) , c0I ° 
mon. 
Sus scrofa, ferus, common, locally abundant. 
The fauna of Western Turkestan, now a province of the Russian Empire, has bc ( ' n 
described by Dr. N. A. Scvertzoff in an elaborate paper published in Volume VIII of 
“Transactions of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow,” and also issued as a separ a )3 
work under the title of “ Verticalnoe e Gorozontalnoe Raspredalenie Turkestanskie Jevotnic- 
This work is unfortunately written in Russian, but a translation into English of all ^ 
portions relating to the mammalia has been published by Mr. Carl Craemers in the Am 1 *- 
and Magazine of Natural History for 1876. 3 To this work it will frequently be necessV 
to allude in the following pages. In all, 83 species are enumerated. Of these, 11 are dom eb 
ticated, and the remaining 72 belong to the following orders : — 
Felis mannl, common. 
Fells lynx, said to be rare. 
Cams lupus, rare. 
Cauls vulpes (? Vulpes flavescens), rare. 
Lutra vulgaris, said to be tolerably common in 
lakes abounding in fish. 
Frinacetis auritus ? (F. albulus) rare. 
Sorex sp., rare. 
Chiroptera 
Insectwora 
Carnivora 
Rodentia 
Ungulata 
7 
3 
21 
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1 Petermann’s Mittheilnngen, Ergiinzungsheft, No. 53, p. 9. — From Kulja across the Thian Shan, &c., p. 166. p r , 
2 Moscow, 1873. When the present paper was first written, no translation of this work had appeared ; and I am indebted to 
Eeistmantel for very kindly translating some of the descriptions for me. 
3 Ser. 4, Vol. xviii, pp. 40, 168, 208, 325, 377. Some foot-notes by Mr. Alston are added. 
