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Capricornis thar, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 138. 



Nemorhcedus 'proclivus and thar, Hodgson, Joiirn. As. Soc. Ben- 

 gal, X, p. 913, 1841. 



Nemorhoedus or Caioricornis hubalinus, Adams, Blyth, Jerdon, 

 Blanford and others. 



Nemorhoedus hubalinus itfpiciis and N. sumatraensis bubalinus, 

 Lydekker. 



Gajjricornis sumatraensis thar, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908, p. 

 176, fig. 30, id. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XIX, No 4, p. 

 823, 1910. 



Closely allied to the last described race, but with the legs whit- 

 ish or greyish-white below the knees and hocks and without the 

 very decided rusty fawn tint on the outer side of the cannon bones. 

 The lovvpir surface is at most dirty gre5dsh-brown and not clear 

 white as in the Chamba race which follows. 



Distribution. — Nepal, Sikhim, Chumbi. 



There are a few old and mounted skins of this animal in the 

 British Museum procured by Hodgson in Nepal and one from 

 Sikhim presented by Blanford. Oapt. Bailey recently shot a 

 specimen in Chumbi, as recorded in this Journal Vol. XIX, 

 p. 823, 1910. 



Skulls of this Serow sent by Hodgson from Nepal are less con- 

 vex in the frontal and nasal region than are the skulls of the two 

 Himalayan races described below. 



The synonymy of this animal has been quoted somewhat fully 

 •to show that thar and not bubalinus is the earliest name given to 

 it, and therefore the one that must be adopted irrespective of fre- 

 quency of use and the quite unimportant predilections of indivi- 

 dual authors. 



Sub-species : rodoni, Pocock. 



CajyriGornis swnatraensis rodoni, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908, p. 

 180, text figs. 32 (skin) and 33 f skull). 



General colour brownish-black, the black portion of the hairs 

 tinged with red. Upper lip, lower lip and chin white, the white 

 from the chin running along the lower jaw and joining a con- 

 spicuous patch at the upper end of throat. Sides of body, 

 shoulders and thighs browner than the back. Chest, belly, inside 

 .of thighs and of upper portion of forelegs and the whole 

 of the outer side of the legs from above the knees and hocks white, 

 the white of the belly and chest sharply defined from the brown 

 of the flanks and neck. 



Distribution. — Chamba in the Punjab. 



This race of Serows is at present known from a skin and skull 

 sent to me by the late Major G. S. Roden, F. Z S. It may be 



