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the parietal and facial regions of the skull. Orbits, at 

 least typically, rather more prominent. Tail short or 

 relatively lung. 



The range of the genus extends from the Himalaya to 

 nortlb western and central China. 



The following " key " to the five species here recognised 

 as valid is based on one given by Pocock : — 



A. Tail short, about 3 inches (exclusive of hair) ; black 



stripe on fore-legs extending over knees, and 

 usually to fetlocks. 



a. General colour grey or fawn-grey, more or less 



suffused with black ; dorsal stripe absent, 

 or not extending behind withers ; tail black 

 at tip; no black on back of thighs N. goral. 



b. General colour brown, more or less suffused with 



black; a black dorsal stripe, extending at 

 least to loins ; a black stripe on upper 

 side of tail, and another along back of 

 each thigh N. hodgsojii. 



B. Tail long, about 5 inches ; black stripe on front of 



fore-legs stopping short of knees, but deflected 



at that point and generally continued down 



inner side of shanks to outer lateral hoofs and 



thence to back of fetlocks. 



a. Coat relatively short and not woolly ; tail 



moderately bushy, with upper and low^er 



surfaces of tuft black ; throat-patch more 



or less 3'ellow, at least marginalh^ N. griseus. 



h. Coat long, shaggy, and more or less woolly, at 

 least in winter ; tail-tuft long and bushy ; 

 no yellow in throat-patch. 

 h'. Legs below knees and hocks nearly uniform 

 fawn in front and on outer sides ; tail- 

 tuft black, much darker than base of tail 

 and middle of back ; a narrow fringe of 



white hairs bordering tail below N. caudatus. 



h". Legs below knees and hocks more or less 

 fuscous in front, and thus contrasting 

 with white or dirtj^ white of feet ; upper 

 side of tail not wholly black and similar 

 in colour to back ; a broad white fringe 

 bordering tail below N. raddeanus. 



I. NEMORH^DUS GORAL. 



Antilope goral, Hardtviclce, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. xiv, p. 518, 

 pi. xiv, 1825 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 38. 



(?) Antilope duvauceli, H. Smith, Griffith's Anim. Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 279, 1827. 



