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I. BUDORCAS TAXICOLOR. 



Budorcas taxicolor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Sac. Bengal, vol. xix, 

 p, 65, pi. i, 1850 ; Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 460, 1884 ; Hume, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 483 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. 

 Mus. pt. ii, p. 151, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna B7'it. India, Mamm. 

 p. 515, 1891 ; Lydchher, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 158, 

 1907, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 795, Field, vol. cxxi, p. 93, 1913, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 22, 1913 ; Mitchell, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1907, p. 464, 1909, p. 741 ; Bentham, Bee. Indian Mus. vol. ii, 

 p. 249, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 349, 1910 ; 

 Pocock, Journ. Bo7nhay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, p. 814, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 856. 



Budorcas taxicola, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 45, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 32, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 101, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 231, 1863. 



Takin. 



Typical locality Mislimi Hills, north of Assan Valley. 



General colour of upper-parts varying from pale straw- 

 colour or yellowish dun grey through rufous to black ; the 

 dun grey sometimes occupying the greater part of the back, 

 exclusive of the black dorsal stripe, which extends from 

 occiput to tail, but in other cases forming a larger or smaller 

 light saddle ; whole of head and neck, most of the under- 

 parts, tail, and Hmbs black. Horns, of which the maximum 

 recorded length is 25 inches, with a girth of 13, and a tip-- 

 to-tip interval of llj inches, relatively thick. 



A.— Budorcas taxicolor taxicolor. 



General characters those of species ; size large — shoulder- 

 height about 3 J feet. The herds appear to vary in colour, 

 which may be reddish in one district, and dun in another a 

 few miles distant.* 



Typical locality Mishmi Hills. 



79. 11. 21. 662. Skin, mounted. Mishmi Hills ; collected 

 by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. This and the next two specimens 

 are the co-types. Transferred from Indict Museum, 1879. 



53. 8. 16. 9. Skin, mounted, female. Mishmi Hills. 

 General colour of light areas yellow dun or straw-colour. 



Presented hy B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 1853. 



* See Field, vol. cxxi, p. 93, 1913. 



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