460 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
GENUS BUDORCAS. 
A heayily-built, somewhat cow-shaped animal, with curiously bent 
horns, which spring upwards, but soon bend laterally outward and then 
upwards and backwards with angular curves ; a front view resembles 
a trident with the centre prong removed. The chevron is highly arched, 
and the false hoofs are very large. 
No. 455. BUDORCAS TAXICOLOR. 
The Takin. 
NaTIvE NaMEs.—Zakin or Takhon, pronounced nasally. 
Hapitat.—The Mishmi hills, Assam, Thibet. 
DescripTion.— The takin is a large, heavily-built ruminant, about 
Budorcas taxicolor. 
3 feet 6 inches high at the shoulder and 6 feet in total length. The 
external peculiarities of the animal are: first, peculiar angularly curved 
horns in both sexes; second, the enormously arched chevron ; third, 
the very great development of the spurious hoofs, which are obtusely 
conical, and about r4 inches in length in a small specimen. 
“The colour of the adult in one stage is fulvous throughout, some 
of the hairs being dark tipped. Legs, tail, muzzle and dorsal stripe 
black. 
“ Old bulls appear to become of an uniform brownish-black at times, 
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