Game Animals of India, etc. 



and back of legs dark brown, rest of legs rufous fawn. 

 Horns very small. Mountains of Upper Burma and 

 (.?) Siam. 



In the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1905, 

 Major G. H. Evans communicated the following notes : 

 " These goral, I believe, extend into Siam and are to 

 be found in suitable places on the Siamese side of the 

 Thaungyin River, and also occur, but are more scarce, 

 about the hills at the headwaters of the Me-Ping. As 

 has been recorded in the case of the Indian form, these 

 goral live in parties of four, six, or even a dozen. 

 They inhabit very steep ground and the more 

 precipitous it is the better they seem to like it. They 

 are never to be found at any distance from rugged, 

 rocky ground, even though there may be forest near 

 by. The only time they may be found away from 

 dangerous ground is during the early hours of the 

 morning and late in the evening, when they graze on 

 the grassy patches close by. No doubt when the sky 

 is overcast, as is the case during the rains, or in the 

 cold weather when there is a heavy mist, they feed 

 much later. Apparently they are inclined to remain 

 always about any favourite locality. Their sight seems 

 to be extraordinarily good, and they appear to rely 

 more on this sense than on smell or hearing. The 

 day is usually passed lying on inaccessible ledges of 

 rock about precipices. 



" If a goral is startled it jumps up and makes a 

 short sharp hissing or sneezing noise, very often 

 repeated at short intervals. It may be a note of alarm 

 or a call to its mates, tor as sure as one calls, if there 

 are any others about (and this is generally the case), it 

 is immediately answered. In Burma, at least, goral are 

 not easily followed, unless by expert cragsmen. 



" Goral, when standing about these crags, afford 

 fairly easy shots with high -velocity rifles, but the 

 recovery of a carcase is, as a rule, by no means an 

 easy matter. The shikaris and followers are generally 



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