MAMMALIA. 
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Many details of the horizontal and vertical distribution are given, the whole area being 
divided into four districts, 1 and also into five vertical zones. 
It is useless to copy out the list given by Severtzoff, because it is certain that many of 
the names require alteration. Thus Dobson has shown 2 that the seven bats, in all proba¬ 
bility, represent but four species, and that several of the specific identifications are extremely 
doubtful. The nomenclature of the birds, which are much more easily determined than 
mammals, has been found to require alteration in many cases. 
A list of the mammalia observed in China north of the Yang-tsi-kiang is furnished by 
Pere Armand David in the “Nouvelles Archives du Museum” for 1871, Vol. VII, Bulletin, 
p. 91. The country is considerably to the eastward of Turkestan, but there is a great similar¬ 
ity between the faunae of the two regions. The identifications in P6re David’s list are by 
Mons. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, one of the best living authorities. The species believed to be 
new are figured by MM. H. and A. Milne-Edwards in their 44 Itechcrches pour servir a 
Thistoire naturelle des Mammiferes.” Apparently but few of the species of Northern China 
are the same as those of Eastern Turkestan. 
V- — Ranges west and north of Yarkand and Kashghar. —Tbe following mammals 
were observed or collected on the ranges west of Yarkand, including the Pamir plateau— 
Felis nncia. 
JJrsus, sp. 
Canis lupus. 
Ardomys aureus. 
Mus erythronotus. 
Gricetus ( Cricetulus) plums. 
C. ( Cricetulus) fnlvus. 
Lepus pamirensis. 
Ovis poll. 
Capra sibirica. 
whilst on the ranges north of Kaslighar the following were observed:— 
Lepus stoliczkanus. Capra sibirica. 
Ovis Icarelini. Sus scrofa, var. nigripes. 
The horns of Qervus eustephanus are said also to have been brought from the Thian 
Shan, and this animal is probably the Qervus maral of Severtzoff and Prejevalski. 
In drawing up the present notes, I have received much aid from two officers of the Mis¬ 
sion to Yarkand,—Captain Trotter and Captain Biddulph,—who assisted me by clearing up 
points left obscure in Dr. Stoliczka’s diary, and who furnished me with notes on some of the 
animals observed by them, I am also indebted to Mr. II. B. Shaw and to Dr. Scully for 
both specimens and information. Dr. Gunther did me the favour of comparing some of 
the skins with types in the Indian Museum. Prom Mr. Wood-Mason, who, in Dr. Anderson’s 
absence, was in charge of the Indian Museum, I have received assistance of every kind, 
and also from Mr. Eraser, the Osteologist; and Dr. Anderson himself, since his return to 
India, has given me every facility for comparing and examining specimens. Without the 
aid kindly afforded me by the officers of the Museum, the present notes would be much more 
imperfect even than they are. Above all, I have to thank Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen 
for the very great trouble he has taken in supervising the preparation of the plates in 
England—a long and tedious labour. The drawing and colouring of the plates has been 
delayed by a number of accidents, and, but for Colonel Godwin-Austen’s assistance, the delay 
For details, see Ibis, 1875, p. 97. Tbe portion of Mr. Severtzoff’s work relating to birds bas been translated by Mr. H. E. 
Dresser in tbe ‘ Ibis’ [l. c.), and many additional notes are added. 
3 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Aug. 1878, Ser. 4, Vol. xviii, p. 130. 
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