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fleece, and likewise by its colour, which is pale rufous-hrown, much mixed 

 with whitish, especially on the face and neck. 



This specimen was purchased in Tokio by Mr. Pryer, who in a letter 

 to the British Museum stated that it differs markedly from the ordinary 

 form of the species. Possibly it may be the one mentioned by Father 

 Heude ^ as seen by himself in Tokio, the colour of the coat according well 

 with his brief description. The type of the Nemorluvdus prycn ot that 

 writer is, however, undoubtedly the skull figured by him under that name ; 

 and there is nothing to connect that skull with the roan-coloured skin seen 

 by its describer in Tokio. Consequently prycri may be a synonym of tlie 

 typical crispi/s, in which case the present race will require a new name. 



In the British Museum specimen the horns are ^\ inches in length and 

 3^ inches in basal girth. This race is believed to inhabit Tokio. 



THE GEMSE, OR ALPINE CHAMOIS 



[Ri/picapra tnrgus) 



(Plate II. Fig. 7) 



It has long been a question whether the term "antelope" is sufficiently 

 elastic to permit of its including the chamois, or gemse ; but as Messrs. 

 Sclater and Thomas have excluded the animal from the Book of Antlclopcs^ 

 we presume that we must regard the question as answered in the negative, 

 and that it is no longer permissible to speak of the chamois as the European 

 antelope. Not that this means that there is no antelope in Europe, for 

 the goitred gazelle ranges into the Caucasus. Assuming the chamois to 

 be allied to the serows and goral of the Himalaya (see Great uiul Small 

 Cuinh' of India, etc), and that to call them antelopes is inappropriate, a 

 collective name for the group is much wanted, for such terms as goat- 



' Mem. I list. Nut. Emp. C/'iiioii, vol. ii. p. 230 (1S94). 



