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(a) A distinct gland on the face in front of the 

 eye ; tail very short ; height at withers 



about three feet Capricornis. 



(h) No gland in front of the eye ; tail longish or 

 long ; height a little over two feet at the 



withers NcemorJiedus. 



In the first portion of this paper (Journal Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 See. XIX, No. 4, pp. 810-811). I gave briefly the reasons 

 which compel me to adopt the name Gcqyricornis for the Serows 

 and Ncemorhedus for the Gorals ; and it is needless, I think, to 

 repeat them here. 



Genus Oapricornis (Serows). 



Ncemorhedus. — H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom V, p. 352, 

 1827 (in part). 



Ca'pricornis. — Ogilby, P. Z. S., 1836, p. 138 (type hubalinus- 

 thar) Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus., XXYI. 166, 1843 ; and subse- 

 quent works ; Heude, Hist. Nat. Chinois II, pp. 222-234, 1894 ; 

 Pocock Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 1, pp. 183-188, 1908; id. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, pp. 174-175. 



NemorJicedus. — Blanford, Fauna of British India, Mammalia 

 p. 512, 1891 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of India, p. 128, 

 1900, and subsequent works. 



It would serve no useful purpose in a paper of this kind to 

 follow in detail the progress of our knowledge of the Serows of 

 British India and the Straits Settlements. It will be sufficient 

 to say that until aboiit three or four years ago zoologists, 

 naturalists and sportsmen who wrote about these animals adopted 

 the nomenclature and identifications set forth by Dr. Blanford in 

 his classical work on the Mammalia of the Fauna of British India, 

 pp. 512-515, 1891. This author referred the Serows of these areas 

 to two species, the distinguishing characters of which he epito- 

 nlised as follows : — 



Legs white or grey near the feet huhalinus. 



Legs rufous sumatrensis. 



The range of the first was said to be from Kashmr to the 

 Mishmi Hills ; of the second from the Eastern Himalayas, 

 Yunnan and Moupin to Sumatra, through Assam, Burma and 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



Without entering upon further criticisms of Dr. Blanford's 

 results, it is necessary to point out here that he deliberately 

 refrained from adopting the oldest available and therefore correct 

 name for the species he named hubalinus and that from not 

 consulting the older natural histories he fell into the error of 

 believing that the Sumatran Serow has the legs red below the 

 knees and hocks. If he had known, as he might very easily have 

 known from literature and from a specimen in the British Museum 



