26 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



THE GORAL. 



NEMORILEDUS GORAL. 



Antilope goral, HardwicTce, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool. vol. xiv, p. 518, 



pi. xiv, 1825. 

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) goral, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 85, 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. iv, p. 488, 1835. 

 Kemas goral, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Hodgson, Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 607, 1847. 

 Nemorhedus goral, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 166, 1843, Cat. 



Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 112, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 



p. 41, 1872; Horsfield, Cat. E. Indian Mus. p. 168, 1851. 

 Cemas goral, Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 516, 1891. 

 Urotragus goral, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of India, p. 136, 



1900. 

 Urotragus bedfordi, Lydekker, Zoologist, 1905, p. 83 ; Ward, Records 



of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 342, 1910. 

 Naemorhedus goral, Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 192. 



In employing Nemorlicedus for the gorals instead of the 

 serows, the writer has followed Mr. Pocock, although he con- 

 siders such a change much to be deprecated, especially as in 

 Hamilton Smith's original description the name N. suma- 

 trensis stands first. As regards the spelling of the name, 

 Ncemorhedus is etymologically wrong, as the word is derived 

 from nemus (gen. nemoris), a wood, and hcedus, a young goat. 

 Hamilton Smith himself seems to have been uncertain with 

 regard to the spelling, as on p. 277 of vol. iv. of the " Animal 

 Kingdom," he has Nsemorhsedine Group, while in the fifth 

 volume he employed Ncemorhedus, and in the " Naturalists' 

 Library," Ncemor/iccdus. 



The following specimens may belong either to the present 

 species or to N. hodgsoni, Pocock (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, 

 p. 195). 



56. 12. 10. 31. 41. Skull and horns. Near Masuri, 

 Garhwal. In this specimen, which stands No. 14 in Mr. 

 Ward's list, the horns measure 7 inches in length by 3 in 

 girth, with a tip-to-tip interval of 2| inches. The record 

 length for goral-horns is 9J inches. 



57. 12. 10. 31. 42. Skull and horns. Kumaon. 



