458
Saiga Antelope Genus Pantholops
_Pantholops Hodgsoni_ 460
_Antelope bezoartica_ 461
_Portax pictus_ 462
_Tetraceros quadricornis_ 463
_Gavaeus gaurus_ 464
" _frontalis_ 465
_Bubalus arni_ 468
Skull of Musk Deer 468
_Moschus moschiferus_ 469
" _moschiferus_ 469
Stag with Horns matured Cervidae
" " " in velvet Cervidae
_Cervulus aureus_ 470
_Rusa Aristotelis_ 471
_Axis maculatus_ 472
" _porcinus_ 473
_Cervus Cashmirianus_ 476
_Tragulus napu_ 478
Mouse Deer 479
_Manis pentadactyla_ 480
Dentition of Dormouse (magnified) Appendix A
_Myoxus_ Appendix A
Osteology of the skull of _Platanista Gangetica_ Appendix B
The Slow Loris Appendix C
Osteology of the feet of Pig, or African deerlet; Javan
deerlet; Roebuck; Sheep; Camel Appendix C
Gaur Appendix C

NATURAL HISTORY
OF THE
MAMMALIA OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON.

INTRODUCTION.

In laying before the public the following history of the Indian
Mammalia, I am actuated by the feeling that a popular work on the
subject is needed, and would be appreciated by many who do not care
to purchase the expensive books that exist, and who also may be more
bothered than enlightened by over-much technical phraseology and
those learned anatomical dissertations whi