Generic Names of the Serows and Gorals. 187 



Heude of Ogilby's generic names does not affect the question 

 as to what is the type of Ncemorhedus, except in so far as 

 his use of the name Capricornis may silence tliose who might 

 otherwise maintain that this name should be dropped on the 

 grounds of its failure to receive recognition at the hands of 

 modern writers. 



Tlie following is a list of tlie generic names that have been 

 proposed for the Serows and Gorals. Since it is desirable 

 that every generic name, whether admitted at the present 

 time or not, should be definitely assigned to a particular species 

 as its type, I have, without prejudice, selected a type for each 

 of those proposed by Heude, Only one of these, however, 

 namely Capricornulus, has, in my opinion, any claim to 

 recognition, Lithotragus, Nemotragus^ and Austritragush^mg 

 complete synonyms of Capricornis. Capricornulus may, 

 perhaps, be admitted on the grounds that the lacrymal bone 

 forms a very short union with the nasal in the typical species 

 crispus, which in this particular approaches Ncemorhedus and 

 differs from Capricornis. 



Ncemorhedus, H. Smith, 1827. Type by Gray^s revision of 

 1843 and 1846 goral, Hardwicke. 



Capricornis, Ogilby, 1836. Type ab initio thar, Hodgson*. 



Kemas, Ogilby, 1836. Type ab initio goral, Hardwicke. 



Urotragus, Gray, 1871. Type ab initio caudatus, M.-Edwards. 



Austritragus, Heude, 1898. Type ab initio sumatraensis, 

 Bechstein f. 



Capricornulus, Heude, 18'J8. Ty|^ by selection crispus, 

 Temm. 



the fact that considerable variation in the colour of the pelage, the struc- 

 ture of the skull, and the size and shape of the horns exists in specimens 

 of Cajjriconiis and Ncemorhedus occurring in the Chinese area. And 

 however much one may secretly sympathize with the omission of the 

 generic and specihc names Heude proposed from Zoological Records, the 

 morality of this proceeding is open to question, at all events, on the 

 grounds that the record of such names, once published, must be pre- 

 served if only to prevent their subsequent use in a different sense by 

 RUihors ignorant of tlieir preoccupation. 



• ' Gleanings,' iii. p. 324 (Oct. 1831). In 1832 (P. Z. S. p. 12) Hodgson 

 substituted bulndina for thar, and of late years the species has been, iifter 

 Blanford's example, erroneously cited as bubalinns. 



t ' Uebersicht vierfiiss. Thiere,' i. p. 98 (1799). Up to the present time 

 this species has been alwaj's cited as sumatrensis, Shaw, 18CU. 



