I9I3'] H. C. Robinson: Mammals. 91 



peguensis, Blyth. The tail is sandy brown above with the base 

 of the fur sooty black. 



23. Budorcas taxicolor/ Hodgs. 



Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xix, p. 65, pis. i-iii 

 (1850). 



There are three frontlets of the Takin in the collection, two 

 purchased at Balek by ^Ir. Kemp and stated to come from the 

 hills at the northern end of the Yamne Valley and a third from 

 the Mishmi hills brought in to Sadiya, N. E. Assam, and presented 

 by Mr. Ballantyne. 



Length Circumference Distance 

 No. Sex. Locality. of horn. of horn. between tips. 



In. In. In. 



9170 (f Yamne \'alley .. 17-6 ii'2 I0'3 



9171 9 Ditto . . 15-8 10*2 9*9 



9172 & Mishmi Hills . . 1975 io"9 10*4 



There has been some difference of opinion as to whether the 

 horns of the two sexes are identical, but I am inclined to follow 

 Hume (P.Z.5., 1887, p. 483) and to regard the simply curved 

 horns not closely approximating on the forehead as those of 

 females and not necessarilv of immature animals. 



24. Capricornis sumatraensis subsp. jamrachi, Pocock. 



Abstract, P. Z. S., 1908, No. 55, p. 12 (1908), id., P.Z.S., 



1908, i, pp. 183-185, figs. 

 Nemorhaedus bubaliiius, auct. Blanford, op. ciL, p. 513. 



Body skin. — Shot near Balek by Capt. J. Masters. 



Adult skull. — From Parong moshup, presented by Capt. A. L. 



Molesworth. 

 Skin. — Between Janakmukh and Balek, collected by Major 



E. H. Sweet and Capt. B. R. Nicholl. 



The skins agree fairly well with the description and figure of 

 the type of the subspecies, which came from Kalimpong, near 



1 No Takin were seen on the expedition, but there is, I believe, very little 

 doubt that they occur in the higher ranges of the Abor country, probablj^ all 

 along from Bhutan to the Mishmi country. As corroboration of the origin of the 

 frontlets obtained at Balek, it may be mentioned that Sir George Dufif-Sutherland- 

 Dunbar has discovered that the Pasi-Minyongs, who inhabit this village, have 

 themselves immigrated within comparatively recent times from the Upper Yamne. 



The village ' moshiips ' or bachelor-houses always contain large numbers of 

 skulls, karkar predominating along with hog-deer, serow, mithan and monkey and 

 an occasional sambar, tiger and leopard. In no other village but Balek did I find 

 any Takin heads, but INIajor Alban Wilson found one at Geku, which was stated 

 to have been washed down the Dihang R. , and others at Dosing. He writes as 

 follows concerning the latter: — "I found four or five Takin heads in Dosing on 

 the right bank of the Dihang : two were quite fresh. The Abors said the heads 

 came from the Bori country, away west of Riga, which fact, coupled with what 

 the Geku people said about the Takin being washed down the river, certainly 

 shows that the animal is found inside the Dihang valley." (S. K.). 



