THE SEliO WS, GORALfi AND TAKINS OF BlilTISH INDIA . 311 



Genus: NEMOKHiEDUS (Gorals). 



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

 1827, (in part); Gv&y, List Mamm., Brit. Mus., p. XXYI, 1843, id. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat., Hist. XIII, p. 232, 1846, and later works ftype, 

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

 id. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908, p. 190. 



Kemas, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 138 (tj^pe, t/oral) ; 

 Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, pp. 513-516, 1891 (nee Cemas, Oken, 

 Lehrb. Zool. II, p. 727, 1816;. 



Ccq^rina, Eadde, Reisen in Slid. Ost. Sibirien I, pp. 262-270, 

 1862-1863 ftype, raddeanus). 



Urotragus, Grey Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) VIII, p. 371, 1871, 

 (^ type, cat«fZa^M.s) ; Lydekker, Zoologist, 1905, p. 83; id. Great and 

 Small Game of India, 1900, p. 136 and subsequent works. 



The essential characters of this genus are enumerated above 

 l^cf.p. 300). 



Distribution.- — Himalaj^as from Kashmir to Sikhim and Bhotan 

 Assam, Arakan in Burma, and northwards through China to Corea. 



The synonymy of this Genus which was long ago settled by Gray 

 hcis oeen quite needlessly confused by authors who followed him. 

 Hamilton Smith included both Gorals and Serows under Nemor- 

 hiedus and this name must stand either for the one genus or the 

 other. Neglecting this law Ogilby ignored Nemorlioedus and called 

 the Serows Capricornis and the Gorals Kemas. Gray, who followed 

 him, put the matter right by reserving Gapricornis for the Serows 

 and keeping Nemorlioedms for the Gorals. He dropped Kemas, very 

 wisely, because Oken had previously employed the name, spelt 

 with a ' C ' instead of a ' K, ' in a totallj^ different sense, that is 

 to saj^ for a number of Antelopes in which the Goral was not in- 

 cluded. Kemas was, however, resuscitated for the Gorals and 

 Nemorlicedus transferred to the Serows by Blanford, who either did 

 not know of Gray's settlement of the question or thought he could 

 set it on one side. Then came Mr. Lydekker who, seeing quite 

 rightly the inadmissibility of Kemas and not being aware presum- 

 ably of what Gray had done, followed Blanford in using Nemor- 

 liucdus for the Serows and introduced for the Gorals the name 

 Urotragus which had been given hj Qxa.j in 1871 to a long-tailed 

 species inhabiting north China, namely, caztfZaiftts of Milne-Edwards. 

 But Radde in 1863 had cited another north Chinese species as 

 Antilope {Caprina^ crispa ^ ; so that even if Blanford and Lydek- 

 ker were right in calling the Serows Nemorlioedus the claims of 

 Gaprina would have to be considered before Urotragus was adopted 

 for the Gorals. But as I have said. Gray had straightened the 



^ This species being- wrongly identified as crispa of Temminck, was correctly re- 

 uauied raddeamis by Heude. 



