Game Animals of India, etc. 



and a white or whitish patch on the chin and throat. 

 Along the back, from nape to tail, runs a conspicuous 

 black streak ; the tail is wholly black above ; and there 

 is a blackish stripe down the tront of the legs, which 

 are elsewhere brown. 



In the Fauna of British India the late Dr. Blanford 

 made no mention oi any colour- variation according to 

 season, age, or sex ; but Mr. Sterndale, in his work 

 on the Mammals of India, stated that the does and 

 young are lighter coloured than old bucks. On the 

 other hand. General Macintyre, in his Hindu-Koh^ 

 observed that the doe is like the buck in appearance, 

 except for her thinner horns ; and he described the 

 colour as uniform greyish brown, with a white throat- 

 patch. 



At least three skins in the British Museum conform 

 to the above-mentioned brown type ; but a fourth skin, 

 with part ot the skull, in the same collection, which 

 appears to represent a fully adult animal, differs by its 

 decidedly greyish-fawn colour, the absence of a distinct 

 dark dorsal stripe, and certain other details. On the 

 evidence of this one specimen there might be consider- 

 able hesitation in admitting the existence of two forms 

 of Himalayan goral. The British Museum possesses, 

 however, a mounted goral-skin, presented in 1897 by 

 the Duke of Bedford, belonging to an animal formerly 

 living in the park at Woburn, and believed to be of 

 Himalayan origin. This specimen agrees precisely 

 with the one last mentioned. Its general colour is 

 light yellowish grey-fawn, suffused with blackish ; the 

 white throat-patch extends largely on to the cheeks ; 

 there is no dorsal stripe ; the muzzle has a dark median 

 streak extending to the level of the eyes ; the tail is 

 blackish only at the base ; and the fore-legs have only 

 a blackish " knee-cap," and the hind ones are wholly 

 rufous fawn. In addition to these striking differences 

 of colour, the ears of this goral are larger than in the 

 typical brown goral, and the horns are more curved 



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