12 THE NATUEAL HISTORY REYIEW. 



knowu Cliamois {Rupicapra tragus) is a somewhat aberrant Euro- 

 pean representative. Of tliis group two species of the genus 

 NemorJicedus {N. goral and N. hubalinus) inhabit the southern 

 slopes of the Himalayas, whilst a third, N. sumatrensis* extends 

 up the Malayan peninsida as far north as the Tenasserim 

 hills. Closely allied to NemorlKBdus is the Budorcas taxicolor of 

 Hodgson, a singular form of gnu-like aspect, which inhabits the 

 Mishnii hills at the head of the valley of Assam. 



Of the Goats the Cajora hylocria of Ogilby (the so-called " Ibex" 

 of the Nilgiris) is alone found in the peninsula of India. In the Hima- 

 layas we meet with C.jemlaica and C. siblrica, and in the Punjab salt- 

 range and Kashmir with Oapra megaceros. The Sheep (Ovis) can hardly 

 be considered strict members of the Indian Fauna, although one 

 species (0. cycloceros) occurs in the Sulimani salt-range of the 

 Punjab, and two if not three othersj upon the heights of the 

 Himalayas. Excluding, therefore, the extreme mountain-forms, 

 which only occur on the highest ranges of the Himalayas, we shall 

 have about fifteen'*species of the family Bovidse, strictly appertinent 

 to the Indian Eauna. 



The Edentata are only represented in the peninsula of India 

 by a single species of the genus Matiis — the M. pentadactgla, 

 replaced, however, in Sikhim and the Himalayas by Ji£. aurita, 

 Hodgson, which Mr. Blyth states to be conspicuously distinct from 

 the preceding. As Marsupials are unknown to the recent Fauna of 

 the Old AVorld, except in Australia, we have now arrived at the 

 termination of the Mammalian series, and can sum up the Mammals 

 of the Indian Fauna in the subjoined table. 



♦ The Ant, goral of Hardwicke and A. huhalina Hodgson, have been made by 

 Ogilby (P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138) the typos of two distinct genera, Eeniasawd Capri- 

 cornis, which have been adopted .by subsequent systematists, but, as Mr. Turner 

 remarks, (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 173), the genus is too well-marked in nature to admit 

 of sub-division, and the oldest name for it is Nemorhccdus, established by Hamilton 

 Smith in 1827, (Griffith's edition of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Vol. v.) with 

 A. mmatrensis as its type. Other species of the group are N. s)vm7ioii, Gray, 

 of Formosa, (figured P. Z. S. 1862, pi. xxxv.) N. rubulus, Blyth, of Aracan, (if 

 distinct from N. huhaliimti), and the species described by Radde (Kcisen in Ost- 

 Sibericn I, p. 262), which is probably different from the India N. (/oral, as well 

 as from the Jai)ancse N. cris2)i(s. 



t Ovis ar(jaU, 0. nahoor and 0. vi'jnei. 



