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MAMMALIA. 



p. 174; Anderson P. Z.S., 1869, p. 470 ; Hume P. Z. S., 1887, p. 4R3, 

 [woodcuts of heads $ and $ j. 

 Budorcas taxicolor var. tibetana, Milne Edwards Rech. Mamm., p. 367, pis, 

 Ixxiv to Ixxix (1S74). 



Takin, Mishmis of Assam frontier ; Khing, Khamtees. 



Distributio7i. — The hills at the head of the Assam valley 

 whence it is brought down by the Mishmi tribes ; it has also been 

 got by Pere David from Moupin in Eastern Thibet. 



The Takin has never yet, as far as I am aware, been seen wild 

 or shot by Anglo-Indian sportsmen, in fact the only man who has 

 been actually in the country of the " Takin " is Pere David the 

 celebrated French Missionary. 



The Takin is a generalized type exhibiting many intermediate 

 characteristics, so that it is difficult to say whether it should 

 be included among the sheep, oxen, antelopes or goajs ; Milne 

 Edwards considers that it is rather more allied to the antelopes, 

 and I have followed him in placing it here at the beginning of the 

 antelopes. 



Hume in his recent paper has shown that all previous writers 

 have been mistaken with regard to the horns of the female, which 

 are long straight and ox-like without the characteristic gnu-like 

 twist of the male. 



a. Stuffed $ Mishmi hills, Assam F. Jenkins, A.S.B. 



b. Stuffed % No history. 



c. Stuffed $ E. T. Daltoa (1856), 



head and A.S.B. 



horns. 



rf. Skull ^ A. R. Comber (1863). 



f. Frontlet ^ F. Jenkins, A.S.B. 



/.Frontlet ^ F. Jenkins, A.S.B. 



^.Frontlet $ F. Jenkins, A.S.B. 



h. Skeleton juv. Col. Graham, 1879. 



j. Skin, skull, Mishmi hills Dy. Commissioner, 1882. 



skelet. $ 



k. Skin, skull, " Sudiya," Assam W. Brydon, 1884. 



skelet. ^ 



/. Skin ^ Col. Graham, 1879. 



m. Skin juv. Col. Graham, 1879. 



n. Skin $ "Debroghur" Col. Graham, 1879. 



o. Skin Mishmi hills J. Gregory, 1870. 



Genus OREAS. 

 Oreas, Desmarest Mamm., p. 471 (1822). 



Oreas canna. 



Antilope oryx, Pallas Spic. Znol., i, p. 15 (1767). 



Antilope oreas, Pallas Spic. Zool., xii, pp. 5 and 17 (1777). 



Antilope (Oreas) canna, Desmarest Mamm., p. 471 (1822). 



