TRE SUMO WiS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 313 



supplied in 1908, when I dedicated the species to Brian Hodgson 

 who was the first to discover and misname it. 



The available evidence shows that the grey goral which ranges 

 at least from Chamba to Nepal, is a more westerly form than the 

 ' brown ' one which extends from Nepal to Sikhim. They may 

 prove to be merelj^ local races of one species ; but since we have no 

 actual proof that they intergrade even in Nepal where both types 

 occur, it is better perhaps to regard them as distinct species. At 

 the same time it cannot be claimed that the differences between 

 them have the same value as the differences which distinguished 

 the Burmese Goral from both of them. 



Ncemorhedus goral, Hardwicke. 



Antilope qoral, Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. Zool. XIV, p. 518., pi. 

 XIV, 1825; H. Smith, (Iriffith's An. Kingdom IV, p. 279, 1827; 

 Jardine, Nat. Library, Mammalia IV, p. 98, 1836. 



Urotragus bedfordi, Lydekker, Zoologist 1905, p. 83, id. Game 

 Animals of India p. 151, 1907, id. in Rowland Ward's Records 

 of Big Game p. 343, fig. 1907. 



NcemorhedAis goral, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 192, fig. 

 37. 



Nee Nemorhcedus goral, Hodgson ; Cemas goral, Blanford ; Uro- 

 tragus goral, Lydekker. 



Colour yellowish-grey suffused with black, varying considerably 

 in tint individually but the pale area of the hairs never rufous or 

 brown ; forehead and sides of nose suffused with rusty yellow ; chin, 

 upper lip, underside of jaws and throat patch white, the latter 

 sometimes yellowish and dark edged. Occasionally a darker spinal 

 Stripe on the nape and withers, but usually none, although this 

 area often appears darker owing to the dark basal portion of the 

 hairs showing when they are erect. Tip of tail black. No black- 

 ish stripe running up back of thigh from the hock to the root of 

 the tail. Legs below knees and hocks varying from grey to rich 

 fawn; the foreleg usually but not always black down the middle 

 over and below the knee, the hindleg usually darker, often blackish, 

 behind from the hock to the fetlock. Ventral surface and inside 

 of thighs whitish. 



Distribution. — Chamba, Dharmsala; Nepal, ? Kashmir. 



On general grounds it seems probable that Kashmir Gorals are 

 specifically the same as those that occur at Chamba ; but I am 

 not acquainted with any description of Gorals from Kashmir, nor 

 have I seen any skins. Of Gorals from Chamba, I have examined 

 eight examples shot by H. H. the Rajah and kindly sent to me 

 through the late Major Rodon. The type of N. bedfordi, an exam- 

 ple that lived at Woburn, came probably, as I learnt from Mr. Jam- 

 rach, the importer, from Dharmsala. Evidence for the extension of 



