Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 325 
typical race, 5 inches instead of 3, and the stripe on the foreleg 
turns inward at the knee and passes down the inside of the leg. 
The flanks and belly are buffy gray. The length of the head and 
body is from 3 feet 4 inches to 3 feet 6 inches, of the hind foot 
10 to 11 inches. The height at the shoulder is 27 inches. The 
range includes Yunnan, Szechwan, and northern Burma from 
3000 to 8000 feet. 
The Northern Goral, Nczmorhedus goral caudatus, differs 
by only small features from the West China Goral. Its pelage is 
heavier and more woolly in winter. The color is generally paler 
gray, and the base of the tail is gray instead of brown. The legs 
and tail are cream-colored. The Northern Goral is found from 
Shansi and Hopei to Amurland, its type region, where it was 
captured in hills near the Lagar River. The range may not be 
continuous. The Manchurian Gorals occur on rocky highlands 
in the midst of heavy forest of pine, oak, and walnut. 
Sowerby says of the Northern Gorals that they sit on their 
haunches, dog fashion, on commanding spurs of rock or lie out 
and sun themselves like large cats. At dusk they descend to the 
grassy slopes just above the tree-line to feed. 
The South China Goral, Namorhedus goral arnoiixianus, 
is distinguished from all the foregoing races by the color of 
the throat patch, which is pale orange. The body in winter is 
brownish gray mixed with black-tipped hairs. This form is 
found in Chekiang, Fukien, Kwangtung, and west into Hupeh, 
in mountains down to 7000 feet. 
The Takin, Budorcas taxicolor, is the most unusual-appear- 
ing of the Goat-antelopes from the fact that its horns, after 
rising from near the midline of the head, abruptly turn outward 
and sweep backward and upward, giving the head a slightly 
cow-like appearance. In the young the horns form simple up- 
right spikes. The animals are heavily built. The front limbs are 
especially stout and the muzzle is enlarged. The color of the 
shaggy fur varies from dull straw-brown to blackish brown. 
