MAMMALIA. 
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Forsyth, are Messrs. Shaw and Hayward, who, independently of each other, penetrated to 
Kashghar in 1868; Hr. Scully, who accompanied Mr. Shaw to Kashghar, when the last 
named officer visited the country a second time in 1874; and Colonel Prejevalski, whose 
journeys, however, were entirely to the eastward of Kashghar and Yarkand. Excellent 
accounts have been published of most of the visits. 1 Occasional references to the fauna 
may he found in all of them, hut the only travellers, except Dr. Stoliczka, who paid 
special attention to the zoology of the country, were Dr. Henderson, who was attached as 
medical officer to the first mission under Sir Douglas Eorsyth, Dr. Scully, who accom¬ 
panied Mr. Shaw in a similar capacity, and Colonel Prejevalski. The detailed zoological results 
of Colonel Prejevalski’s journey to Lake Lob and the Altyn mountains in Eastern Turkestan, 
if published, have not yet reached India, hut lists of the larger mammals noticed are given in 
the official report of his journey, which has been translated into German and English. 2 In 
these notices, however, the species are naturally not critically determined. Both Dr. Henderson 
and Dr. Scully paid especial attention to birds, although both brought away with them some 
very interesting mammals. Some of the rodents procured by Dr. Henderson were described 
by Dr. J. Anderson in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3 and notices of 
some specimens obtained by Dr. Scully were given by Mr. Wood-Mason 4 and the present 
writer 5 in the Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The specimens 
thus described, and a few others not hitherto mentioned in print, will he noticed in the 
following pages. It is a singular fact, showing how much, in all probability, yet remains to 
be ascertained concerning the fauna of Ladak and Yarkand, that of the seven species of 
mammals 6 of which specimens were procured in those countries by Dr. Henderson, only 
three are represented in the collections made by Dr. Stoliczka. 
Although Ladak has been visited and described by numerous travellers, there is not 
much more recorded concerning its fauna than is to he found in occasional notes. Very 
little indeed can he gleaned from Moorcroft. 7 Yigne 8 noticed a few of the mammals met 
with, and one of the wild sheep has been named after him. Thomson 9 devoted himself 
solely to botany, and scarcely referred to any of the animals observed; hut Cunningham 10 gave 
a chapter to the wild animals of Ladak, amongst which he mentioned the kyang, wild yak, 
three kinds of wild sheep, markhor, ibex, Tibetan stag, musk deer, leopard, hear, wolf, 
fox, hare, lagomys, marmot, and weasel. Some of these animals cannot, however, he 
1 Visit to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashghar, formerly Chinese Tartary, and return journey over the Karakoram Pass. By 
Kobert Shaw : London, 1871. 
Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashghar, and exploration of the sources of the Yarkand river. By G. W. Hayward ; Jour. 
Boy. Geog. Soc., 1870, xl, p. 33. 
Lahore to Yarkand. By George Henderson, M. D., and Allan 0. Hume, c. B. : London, 1873. 
A contribution to the Ornithology of Eastern Turkestan. By J. Scully, Surgeon, Bengal Army. Stray Feathers, iv, 
1876, p. 41. 
2 Przewalsky’s Eeise an den Lob-nor und Altyn-Tag, 1876-77; Petermann’s Mittheilungen, Erganzungsheft No. 53,1878.— 
From Kulja across the Tian-Shan to Lob-nor by Colonel N. Prejevalsky ; translated by E. Delmar Morgan : London, 1879. 
3 On some Bodents from Yarkand, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 559. 
4 P. A. S. B., 1876, p. 80. 
5 J. A. S. B., 1876, xlv, Pt. 2, p. 49 ; 1877, xlvi, Pt.2, p. 259. 
6 These species were Erinaceus albulus, Mustela temon ?, M. erminea, Arctomys himalayanus, A. caudatus, Lepus pallipes 
var., and Lagomys ladacensis. The first and the two last were obtained also by Dr. Stoliczka. 
n Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, &c., 1841, p. 311. 
8 Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, &c., 1842, ii, p. 277, &c. 
9 Western Himalaya and Tibet, 1852. 
10 Ladak, physical, statistical, and historical, with notices of the surrounding countries: London, 1854, p. 195. 
