Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II. (Natural History &c.) 1880

W. H. Johnson the Governor of Lady k informs me that the Musk-Deer is found in the country below and to the east of Lhisa along the course of the Ts_tinpa river. [...] The occurrence of the Musk-Deer far in on the Tibet plateau is a fact of considerable importance as it is the only instance of any of the large mammals of the forest clad Alpine Himalaya extending its range into the dry and desert regions to the north. [...] I have seen or procured specimens of the hitter species from the mountains above Khalchi on the Indus ; on the pass separating the Markha river from the Gia river to the south of Leh ; and still further south on Kiang-Chu MaidAn in Rtipsti ; to the north of the Indus in Leda on the Chang and Kai passes forming the wateshed of the Indus and Shyok rivers ; around the Pangong lake ; and in [...] King has lately shown a distinction between the Kota and Maleri beds ; confirming the original distinction as to the Liasaic affinities of the fossils of the former and the Rtueto-triassic of those of tho latter. [...] Stoliczka : from the absence of vomerine teeth and from the structure of the limbs referred the species to the genus Oxyglossus at the present time living in China and Siam and possibly in India.