Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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Robert Armitage Sterndale. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

ORDER BIMANA

ORDER QUADRUMANA

ORDER CARNARIA

ORDER CETACEA—THE WHALES

ORDER RODENTIA

ORDER PROBOSCIDEA

ORDER UNGULATA

ORDER EDENTATA

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

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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 which are necessary to the scientific zoologist.

Another motive in thus venturing is, that the only complete history of Indian Mammalia is Dr. Jerdon's, which is exhaustive within the boundaries he has assigned to India proper; but as he has excluded Assam, Cachar, Tenasserim, Burmah, Arracan, and Ceylon, his book is incomplete as a Natural History of the Mammals of British India. I shall have to acknowledge much to Jerdon in the following pages, and it is to him I owe much encouragement, whilst we were together in the field during the Indian Mutiny, in the pursuit of the study to which he devoted his life; and the general arrangement of this work will be based on his book, his numbers being preserved, in order that those who possess his 'Mammals of India' may readily refer to the noted species.

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DESCRIPTION.—Fur of head and back long and dense, bicoloured; base black, tips brown; underneath the hairs are two-thirds black, with the remaining upper third pure white.

SIZE.—Head and body, 1·65 inch; tail, 1·35.

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