The Burmese Goral 



anything but keen on a trip down one of these 

 precipices, and I for one do not blame them. Though 

 they may be adepts in woodcraft, they cannot be 

 anything hke the cragsmen (hill-shikaris) met with in 

 the Himalaya. Goral-flesh is not at all bad. From 

 December till May is the best season to hunt these 

 animals, and morning and evening is the best time to 

 find them, as they are then grazing or lying down in 

 places more easily accessible." 



THE ASHY TIBETAN GORAL 



{Urotragus ciyiereus) 



This species, like the next, is one of the numerous 

 animals discovered by the missionary Abbe David in 

 the Moupin district of Eastern Tibet, and described by 

 Professor Milne-Edwards of the Paris Museum. In 

 the type specimen the horns measured '~j\ inches in 

 length. 



Compared with the next the present species is stated 

 to be larger, and its fur of a more nearly uniform 

 colour, being more distinctly ashy, and less mingled 

 with brown. Moreover, the whitish patches on the 

 throat and on the feet are smaller and less suffused 

 with yellow. More important than all is the greater 

 length and bushiness of the tail, which is not inferior in 

 these respects to that of the Mongolian long-tailed goral 

 {U. caudatus). The describer adds that he should have 

 hesitated to distinguish this species from the next 

 were it not for important differences in their skulls, 

 that of the present animal, in addition to other points, 

 being more elongated. 



The two animals are stated to be recognised as 

 different from one another by the natives of Eastern 

 Tibet, who affirm that the present one lives at a higher 

 altitude than the next. Both appear distinguishable 



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