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the orbits which conceal the zygomatic arch 



and to the presence of a swelling on the 



maxilla above the molar teeth. 



«!. Frontal and parietal regions of the skull 



forming an evenly convex curve, the 



horns projecting backwards and upwards, 



nearlv following the plane of the face 



and subparallel to each other Noemorhedm. 



/>!. Frontal and parietal regions of the skull not 

 forming a gentle curve, owing to the pre- 

 sence of a large upright long crest sup- 

 porting the horns, which project laterally 

 from its sides with a downward followed 



by a backward curvature Budorcas. 



It may be added that the deep-seated differences between the 

 skulls of Serows (Cap?vco?'J«w) and Gorals {Ncemorhedus) are to a 

 slight extent bridged over in the Japanese Serow named Capricormdas 

 crispus in which only a very small area of the lacryma] touches the 

 nasal, so that the antero-lateral angle of the frontal is not very 

 remote from the upper edge of the maxilla. The latter, however, 

 forms a long union with the nasal and the lacrymal is fitted as in the 



tvpical Serow s. 

 " A few words must now be added by way of explanation ot tlie 



generic names adopted in this work. Owing partly to the introduc- 

 Hon and sustained use of inadmissible names and partly to failure to 

 appreciate the value of the structural differences between Serows and 

 (4orals there has been much needless confusion in the generic 

 nomenclature of these two animals. The history of all this confusion 

 would be too long to tell in a paper like the present, especially since 

 1 have already set it forth at some length in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History for February 1908. All that need be 

 said\ that originally Gorals and Serows were grouped together under 

 Noemorhedus by Hamilton, Smith, Hodgson and others. The first 

 author to distinguish them by generic names was Ogilby in 1830, 

 who called Serows Caprkornis and Gorals Kemas and abolished 

 Noimorhedus which he had no power or right to do since by its 

 original definition it must stand for one of them. Moreover, Kemas or 

 rather Cemas had been previously employed for a section of ruminant 



