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small parties. It is impossible, in the absence of a skull 

 from the Glen Eyrie material, to be quite sure whether the 

 particular Capricorn that inhabited the Pike's Peak region 

 was a Serow or a Goral. Of the Serows, the osteological col- 

 lections of the National Museum included a skull, but no 

 skeleton: but the agreement of the two limb-bones with the 

 corresponding ones of the species of "Goral in the museum 

 (XemorJurdns crisjius, or Kemas crispus, of Japan) is such 

 that the slight differences can hardly be considered of more 

 than specific value, and it seems probable that our Rocky 

 Mountain Goat-antelope was a Goral. A glance, therefore, 

 at the species of Goral that inhabits an interior mountain 

 region of Asia corresponding with ours of North America 

 may be of interest. The following account of the Goral of 

 the Himalaya is derived in part from Jerdon's '" Mammals of 

 India " and in part from Lydekker's " Chapters on Hoofed 

 Animals." • 



The animal is very caprine in appearance, the back some- 

 what arched, the limbs stout and moderately long. It is well 

 adapted for both climbing and jumping. It stands some 

 twenty-seven to thirty inches high at the shoulder, the head 

 and body measuring fifty, the tail four, and the horns eight 

 inches in length. The horns, which are present in both 

 sexes, and only a little larger in the male than in the female, 

 incline backward and slightly inward, and are a little re- 

 curved; they are shorter than the skull, black in color, round 

 in cross-section, and ornamented with twenty to twenty-five 

 encircling raised folds. The fur is somewhat rough, of two 

 kinds of hair, and there is a short, semi-erect mane in the 

 male. The color is brown, with a more or less decided gray 

 or ruddy tinge, a little lighter beneath. The throat is white. 

 A dark line runs down the back from crown to tail, and the 

 front surfaces of the legs are also marked with dark streaks. 

 Though found considerably higher and lower, the Himalayan 

 Gorals are commonest at elevations of 5,000 to (3,000 feet above 

 sea-level. They inhabit rugged, grassy hills and rocky ground 

 in the midst of forests, and are usually found in small family 

 parties of three to eight. If one Goral is seen, you may be 

 pretty sure that others are not far off. They rarely or never 



