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found below 11,000'. It is found only among rocks and heaps of etones, 

 making no burrows, but when necessary enlarging hollows under the rocks. 

 Apparently only one pair of adults inhabits a fairly large area. Mouse 

 hares are perhaps the most popular and fascinating little animals of the 

 Western Himalayas, their timid interest in the movements of a traveller 

 being sometimes the only cheerful incident during marches over boulder 

 strewn wastes. When approached, a mouse hare generally seeks the 

 shelter of his particular pile of rocks ; a position can then be taken up about 

 10 yards away, and in time he will reappear, peeping over the top of a rock, 

 or sitting motionless while deciding whether the intruder is dangerous or 

 not. Once satisfied that there is no cause for alarm, he becomes bold, racing 

 over and round the rocks and making rapid springs from one projection 

 to another, vanishing suddenly and popping up in unexpected places, he 

 may now snatch a few hasty moutufuls of grass, with intervals for scratch- 

 ing his back and washing his face, then in a flash he is gone." — 0. A. C. 

 Vernacular name — (Hindi) Mitua. 



(63) MuNTiActjs VAGINALIS, Bodd. 

 The Barking Deer. 

 (Synonymy in No. 2.) 

 1 ? , Bageswar, 3,200'. 

 Vernacular name — (Hindi) Kukri. 



{See also Reports Nos. 2, 6, 7, 11 and 14.) 



(64) RusA UNicoLOR, Bechs. 

 The Sambhar. 

 (Synonymy in No. 5.) 

 1 5 , Sitabani, 2,000'. 

 Vernacular name — (Hindi) Jereow. 



{See also Reports Nos. 5 and 11.) 



(65) Nemorh^dus gobal, Hardw. 

 The Grey Himalayan Goral. 



1826. Antilope goral, Hardwicke, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, p. 518. 



1827. Antilope duvaucelli, H. Smith, Griff. An. Kingd. IV, p. 279. 

 1907. Urotragus bedfordi, Lydekker, Game Animals, Ind., p. 151. 

 1891. Cemas goral, Blanford, Mammalia No. 354. 



1 $ , Ratighat, 3,700'. 



The latest authority, Lydekker's ' Catalogue of the Ungulates', following 

 Pocock, recognises two species of Goral for the Indian Himalaya, viz., 

 goral for the Western and hodgsoni for the Eastern. The present specime 

 comes apparently from the Eastern limit of the species. 



Vernacular name — (Hindi) Goer. 



