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animal and belonged to Hume's collection. The other skin is that 

 of a young animal from Arakan, shot by the late Mr. C. E. Mum- 

 ford. For the opportunity to examine this I am indebted to Mrs. 

 Mumford. These differ in some interesting pai'ticulars from each 

 other and also to a certain extent from the Shillong and Chittagong 

 specimens in the Calcutta Museum. 



In Mr. Hume's specimen the upper lip, rim of the muzzle, chin, 

 interramal area of jaws and the throat patch are white. The head, 

 neck and body are covered with liery-red hairs, the head and neck 

 being much redder than the body, the grey basal portion of the 

 hairs of the body showing to a great extent and imparting a hoary 

 £ispect to this region. The hind quarters are darker than the 

 body. There is a distinct but narrow black spinal stripe and the 

 tail has a black tip. The hairs of the mane are red distally, black 

 basally. The legs are reddish brown throughout, showing no 

 decided change of colour at the knees and hocks, but are patched 

 with white on the fetlocks. The lower surface of the body and 

 the insides of the limbs at the base are greyish-red, not white. 



The skin of the young specimen shot by Mr. E. G. Mumford on 

 Kj^auk-pin-daung mountain in the hill tracts of northern Arakan 

 resembles the last described specimen in a general way. The 

 sides of the neck are a uniform rusty j^ellow, the hairs being white 

 basally but having no black in them. The shoulders and the rest 

 of the body are darker owing to a noticeable quantitj^ of black in 

 the middle of each hair, the base being white and the distal end 

 red. The hairs of the mane show the same three colours, but 

 along the spine the encroachment of the black over the red in the 

 hairs forms the dark spinal stripe. The upper portions of the 

 limbs are rather darker than the body (the lower portions, like the 

 head, have been cut away), but at the base of the forelegs on the 

 inner side, the whorl of hairs, present in all Serows and Gorals, 

 is quite white, and this colour extends for a short distance up the 

 throat in front and backwards on to the inner side of the legs. 

 There is also a white patch on the inner side of the thigh in front. 



In the pi'esence of the white upon the chest this specimen 

 differs markedly from Mr. Hume's specimen and also from the two 

 in the Calcutta Museum. It is also considerably darker than the 

 former owing to a greater amount of black in the hairs of the 

 body. The Calcutta specimens from Shillong and Chittagong it 

 may be noted again, have no black in the hairs. Finallj^ in 

 Hume's specimen the hairs of the mane are black at the base and 

 red distally, whereas in Mr. Mumford's example the extreme bases 

 of the hairs of the mane are white. I suspect, however, that these 

 differences in Mr. Mumford's specimen are attributable to 

 immatiirity. 



It may be added that the presence of black in the hairs of some 



