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Show 1893.] NEW STAG FROM TIBET. 449 species peculiar to this tract of elevated country, and the list of these Mammals as amended may be of interest to Zoologists. It is therefore added here. MAMMALIA OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU. INSECTIVORA. Crocidura aranea. tNectogale elegans. CARNIVORA. Felis manul. F. lynx. F. uncia. *Paradoxurus laniger. Canis lupus, var. laniger. Vulpes alopex, var. flavescens. * V. ferrilatus. Cyon deccanensis, var. Mustela foina, var. *Putorius larvatus. *P. canigula. P. alpinus, var. temon. P. erminia. *Meles leucura. *M. albogularis ? tMluropus melanoleucus. * Ursus pruinosus. RODENTIA. tEupetaurus cinereus. * Arctomys himalayanus. *A. robustus. RODENTIA-continued. *Mus sublimis. *Microtus (Arvicola) blythi. *M. strauchi. *M. (Eremiomys) przevalskii. Siphneusjontanieri. *Lagomys curzonics. *L. rutilus. *L. erythrotis. *L. melanostomus. *L. ladacensis. xLepus oiostolus. *L. hypsibius. UNGULATA. Equus hemionus, var. Jciang. *Bos grunniens. *Ovis hodgsoni. 0. vignei, var. *0. nahura. Capra sibirica. fPantholops hodgsoni. tBudorcas taxicolor ? * Gazella picticaudata. * Cervus affinis. *C. thoroldi. Moschus moschiferus. In this list * signifies a peculiar species, t a peculiar genus; that is, a species or genus not known to exist out of Tibet. This is a list of the mammals known to inhabit the plateau north of the Himalayas and south of the Kuenlun, Altyn Tag, and Nanshan, at elevations exceeding 12,000 feet. Many of the forms named only inhabit small portions of the area, and whilst Bos grunniens, Ovis hodgsoni, Pantholops hodgsoni, and Gazella picticaudata, with several rodents, appear to be peculiar to the high plateaus above 14,000 feet, the two species of Cervus are probably found in brushwood at a rather lower elevation in the more broken regions of Eastern Tibet, where the rainfall is heavier and the vegetation more abundant. As was pointed out in the paper in the ' Geological Magazine,' there is, so far as I a m aware, no equally peculiar mammalian fauna to be found in any continental area of equal extent, and for a parallel it is necessary to turn to some island like Celebes, that has long been isolated from all surrounding lands. |
