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the difference is not very great, even if it exists at all — a lact which 

 suggests that the specimen of B. tibetanus in the British Museum 

 which Mr. Lydekker and I have described, would seem to be an 

 example with exceptionally thin horns. The annexed figure of 

 the frontlet and horns of this specimen shows not only that the 

 horns are thinner, more arched and more distinctly ridged in 

 B. tibetanus than in B. taxicolor, but that the skull itself is consider- 

 ably narrower in proportion to its width in the former than in the latter. 

 The full measurements given by Ward are as follows : — 



The name sinensis which figures in the synonyms of B. taxicolor 

 appears in print for the first time, so far as I know, in Eowland Ward's 

 Records oi Big Game, 1907. Since it is there accompanied by measure- 

 ments, the name must stand if the Takin from the locality mentioned, 

 namely Kansu in China, proves to be racially separable from the one 

 Milne Edwards described. Mr. Lydekker, however, says that the 

 example in the Tring Museum to which the name sinensis was first 

 applied is identical with the Sze-chuen specimens he saw described 

 and figured in 1908. If this be so, and if the differences above 

 mentioned that undeniably subsist between the figures and descriptions of 

 the animals described respectively by Milne Edwards and Mr. Lydek- 

 ker turn out to be of systematic importance, sufficient to justify 

 nominal recognition, the name sinensis will have to be retained 

 for those specimens examined by Mr. LydeJiker which were shot 

 by Mr. Brooks in Sze-chuen and are now exhibited in the British 

 Museum, as well as for the type in the Tring Museum from Kansa. 



According to Milne Edwards the young of this specif.^ is 

 brownish red and gradually assumes the pale tint of the adult with 

 advancing years. 



