312 MAJOR G. H. EVANS ON THE | Nov. 14, 
the Burmans dare not venture into Chin-land, they could afford 
no definite information beyond that the Chins had told them that 
there were several of these animals on a certain high mountain 
now known as Mount Victoria. Since then several Goral have 
been shot there by policemen on outpost and others. 
During the season of 1896-97 I visited the Arakan Hill-tracts, 
which are merely a southern continuation of the Chin Hills into 
the Akyab district of Arakan. Here again I came on askull and 
a skin (the latter in a very bad state of preservation) of this Goral. 
This animal, from the horns evidently a female, was shot in the 
hills at a place not very far distant, and local informants said that 
there were a fair number. Being unable to visit the place at 
that time, I told a friend of the ground, and asked him to find 
out if what I had heard was correct. He did so, and came 
across some six animals, of which he shot a couple. One of these, 
owing to the ground, it was impossible to recover. I sent a skull 
for identification, and was informed that it was a Himalayan 
Goral. I was unacquainted with the Indian Goral, but from the 
descriptions in books I was not quite satisfied that it was the 
same animal. Later on, while after Serow in the Shan range of 
hills to the east of the Inrawaddy, I was much surprised again 
to run across these animals. I was still more convinced that 
the beast was not the same as the Indian Goral, so much so, 
that I asked a friend to shoot an Indian Goral and send me a 
head and skin, which he very kindly did. On comparison my 
suspicions were confirmed. J was then most desirous to procure a 
specimen for the British Museum, but luck was against me, as it 
was a long time before I ran across them again. 
The following are the chief characteristics of these Goral :— 
General oie. —Goat-like with sturdy lmbs. Horns are 
present in both sexes: those of the female are shorter, thinner, 
and not so rough as those of the male. They are generally almost 
parallel, 7. e. only shghtly divergent, and have a slightly backward 
eurve. The coat is moderately long, close, and the hair rather 
coarse ; there is generally a well-marked underfur. The mammee 
are four in number. 
General colowr—A dark, more or less rat-grey, with an 
admixture of longish, dark, rufous-tipped hairs running through 
the coat, but mostly on back and upper surface of body. In an 
old buck the back, haunches, and upper portions of sides were 
dark pepper-and- salt ox evizzled grey. Ina young specimen the 
colour was generally lighter. There is no distinct dorsal stripe : 
in a young animal a very faint but distinct brownish line was 
traceable, extending from the nape to the dock, and in the skin 
of a female also, when held in a good light, a darker brownish 
median line could be discerned. The colour fades gradually on 
the side to a dirty reddish white under the abdomen. The colour 
about the back of the neck isa lighter grey than that of the body, 
and the hair is longer. A distinct crest of longer hair of 
blackish-brown colour extends from between horns to behind the 
