Game Animals of India, etc. 



The same writer also states that if the figures of the 

 skull published by Hodgson be exact, there are also 

 certain differences between the horns of the Moupin 

 and the Mishmi takin. A specimen of (presumably) 

 the Kansu takin in the British Museum has the 

 general colour of the coat (which is longer than in the 

 Mishmi race) of a bright golden yellow, very different 

 from the brownish red of the Mishmi takin. 



According to information obtained by the Abbe 

 David from the natives, the Moupin takin frequents 

 the steepest and most thickly wooded declivities of its 

 native mountains, only leaving its retreats to feed 

 during the night. In winter, when the mountains are 

 enveloped in snow, it ascends to the elevated tracts 

 above the forests where no snow falls at that season, 

 finding there an abundance of dry herbage on the 

 slopes exposed to the sun, on which the snows that fall 

 in the summer and autumn have been melted by the 

 solar rays. In these districts takin seem to be fairly 

 common ; and they range eastward into the Chinese 

 provinces of Kansu and of Szechuen. Although 

 generally living solitary or in small parties, it is stated 

 to collect during the month of June in herds of 

 considerable size. 



THE NILGAI, OR BLUE BULL 



{Boselaphus tragocamelus) 



Native Names. — A^//, Nilgao (male). Nilgai (female), 

 Rojhj RoZj OR Rojra^ Hindustani ; Ru-i^ 

 Deccani, Mahrathi, Guzrati, etc. ; Guraya of 

 THE GoNDs ; Murim (male), Susam (female) of 

 THE Ho KoL ; Manu-potu^ Tamil ; Mairu, 

 Maravi ; Kard-Kadrai, Canarese. 



(Plate v, fig. lo) 



It is unfortunate that the largest of Indian antelopes 

 is so poorly off in the matter of horns that, from the 



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