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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF GOEAL 



(NEMOBH^JDUS) SHOT BY CAPTAIN 



F. M. BAILEY. 



BY 



R. I. PococK, F.R.S. 



Capt. F. M. Bailey recently sent to Messrs. Rowland Ward the 

 skin and sktill of an adult specimen of a Goral shot in Po Me 

 in Tibet and, suspecting it might prove of interest from the locality 

 standpoint, if from no other, asked me to examine it. His suspi- 

 cions proved well founded, for the specimen turns ont to be an 

 "undescribed form related to the two Himalayan species of Goral 

 (Nemorlicedus goral, and N. hodgsoni') recently described in this Journal 

 (J. Bombay Nat. His. Soc. XXII, pp. 313-314, 1913). Its 

 relationship with these species and not with the Chinese tjrpes of 

 goral is shown by the shortness of the tail and by the extension of 

 the black patch over the knees of the front legs. 



NEMOBEJEDUS BAIL'EYI, sp. n. 



General colour a uniform dark-brown on the body, rather paler on 

 the sides and belly than on the back, but with no distinct black 

 speckling on the hairs. A black spinal stripe extending from the 

 crown of the head to the tail, deeper in tint upon the head and neck 

 than on the back and gradually fading posteriorly upon the croup. 

 Tail short and mostly black, but with some brown hairs on its upper 

 side. A distinct dark patch above the rhinarium on the muzzle. 

 Upper and lower lips with a narrow white rim, but the rest of the 

 lips darkish. At the upper end of the throat a narrow elongated 

 area of white hairs and the hair-whorls on the inner side at the 

 base of the forelegs forming two large white patches. Forelegs 

 dark yellowish brown, brighter on the feet and on the inner side ; a 

 short black patch extending over the middle of the knee but not 

 above or below it to any appreciable extent. Hind legs the same 

 colour on the front, without any definite dark strike extending up 

 their posterior stirface towards the root of the tail ; inside of 

 thighs at base dirty white. 



Measurements. — Length of head and body 42| in. ; height at 

 shoulder 25:^ in. ; length of tail 3;^ in. ; of ear 4^ in. ; of horns 5 in. 



Loc. Dre on bank of Yigrong Tso (Lake) in Po Me. 9,00C ft. 

 Jiily 3rd, 1913. An adult male, example {Tyjpe). 



The dark coloration and the presence of the black spinal stripe 

 rugged. Hindrip between this species and N. hodgsoni rather thin 



