456 MamMatia OF INDIA. 
between a snort and a screaming whistle, and I have heard them 
screaming loudly when they had apparently not been alarmed.” 
Colonel Markham says of it that it is something in appearance between 
a jackass and a ¢har, with long stout legs, and a strong neck. Jerdon’s 
description is not clear ; it is: “above black, more or less grizzled and 
mixed on the flanks with deep clay colour ; a black dorsal stripe ; fore- 
arms and thighs anteriorly reddish brown ; the rest of the limbs hoary ; 
beneath whitish.” The deep clay colour is indefinite, as there are many 
sorts of clay, and people’s ideas may differ as to the shade by the parti- 
cular clay to which they are most accustomed. Dr. Anderson found it 
in the Western provinces of Yunnan; and General McMaster, in his 
‘ Notes’ (page 143), says that when he was quartered at Shuaygheen, on 
the Sitang river, in Burmah, a female of this species was brought alive 
to Major Berdmore by some Burmans, who had caught it in the 
river, by which it had probably been washed down from the Karanee 
mountains. He adds that even in its exhausted and dying state it was 
exceedingly savage, butting at every one who approached it. 
Si1ze.—Height, about 3 feet, or an inch or two over ; length, about 5 
to 54 feet; weight, about 200 lbs.; horns, about a foot long as an 
average, varying from 9 to 14 inches. 
The female usually produces one kid in the autumn, about September 
or October, and the period of gestation is about seven months. 
No. 452. NEMORH@DUS RUBIDA vel SUMATRENSIS. 
The Arakanese Capricorn. 
Native Name.— Zan-Kseik, Arakanese. 
Hapitat.—Arakan, through Pegu to (according to Blyth) the ex- 
tremity of the Malayan peninsula, and occurs in Siam and Formosa, 
and also inSumatra. Has been shot near Shillong in Assam. 
DeEscRIPTION.—Blyth is of opinion (‘ Cat. Mam. British Burmah,’ 
‘jy. A. S. B’ 1875) that his M rudida is identical with Swmatrensis and 
Swinhoei, and he could detect no difference in their skulls and skins. 
I therefore take the following description of Capricornis Swinhoet from 
the ‘P. Z. S.’ 1862, page 263, where it is also figured, plate xxxv. :-— 
“The fur harsh and crisp, brown, with a narrow streak down the 
back of the neck; a spot on the knee and the front of the fore-legs 
below the knee black; the hind-legs are bay; the sides of the chin 
pale yellowish ; the under-side of the neck yellow bay, this colour being 
separated from the darker colour of the upper part of the neck bya 
ridge of longer, more rigid hairs; the ears are long, brown, paler 
internally ; the horns are short and conical; the skull has a deep and 
wide concavity in front of the orbits, and a keeled ridge on the cheek.” 
Blyth says: ‘‘ This species varies much in colour from red to black, 
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