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Himalayan animal. In these respects, as with most of the other 

 minute differences brought out by the measurements, skulls of n. 

 nitidus from Sikkim make a nearer approach to the present form 

 than do those fi'om Kumaon. The bullse of w. obsoletus seem to 

 be a trifle smaller and rounder than those of true nitidus. 



As regards the cheek-teeth, cusp 1 of rii^ is even more reduced 

 thaai in n. nitidus ; and the postero-external tubercle (cusp 5) in 

 both m" & fn} is also unusually small and scarcely separated from 

 the median tubercle (cusp. s). 



