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THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



THE CORALS 

 Genus Cemas 



The goral (Cemas goral} of the Himalayas, is our first representative of an 

 assemblage of mountain-haunting Ruminants which to a great extent connect the 

 goats with the antelopes. Most of these animals have a more or less goat-like build, 

 goat-like teeth, short tails, relatively-small cylindrical horns, and no beards. The 

 goral is a relatively-small creature, standing only twenty-seven inches at the 

 shoulder, and having somewhat stout limbs, and rather coarse short hair, which be- 



THE GORAL. 

 (One-tenth natural size.) 



comes elongated into a slight crest along the back of the neck. Its general color is 

 brown, with a more or less rufous or gray tinge; but there is a dark stripe from the 

 nape of the neck, to the black tail, and another down the front of each leg, while 

 the throat is white. The muzzle is naked; and the face, as in the goats, has no 

 gland below the eye, while the skull lacks any depression in the same region. The 

 short, black, and conical horns curve regularly backward, and are marked, except 

 at the tip, by a number of small and irregular rings. In the bucks they may vary 

 from six to eight inches in length, but a pair has been recorded of upward of nine 

 and three-fourths inches. The horns of the does are only slightly smaller than those 

 of the bucks. 



