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in summer and grey in winter, but clouded in places at 

 former season with iron-grey, and passing into iron-grey or 

 blackish on limbs and hind-quarters ; in female yellow 

 replaced by grey ; a dorsal stripe from withers to tail 

 blackish, as are also the tail, ears, a ring round each eye, 

 front of lower part of face and tip of chin. Horns, in some 

 cases at least, thinner, more arched, and more distinctly 

 ridged at base than in typical species. 



Horns in the possession of the writer indicate that the 

 range of this race extends into Yun-nan. 



FIG. 53. SZE-CHUAN TAKIN (Budorcas tibetana), subadult male. 



5. 11. 30. 5. Skin, subadult, mounted. Sze-chuan ; 

 figured Proc. ZooL Soc., 1908, pi. xliii., fig. 1. 



Purchased, 1905. 



8. 6. 13. 3. Skin, subadult female, mounted. Sze-chuan ; 

 collected by Mason Mitchell, Esq. Type of B. t. mitchelli, 

 figured Proc. ZooL Soc., op. cit., fig. 2. 



Presented lij J. Roidand Ward, Esq., 1908. 

 8. 10. 9. 7. Skin, horns, and skeleton. Ten miles west 

 of Wen-chuan, Sze-chuan. The skull (fig. 54) described 

 and figured Proc. ZooL Soc., 1908, p. 798. 



Presented by J. W. Brooke, Esq., 1908. 



