174 MR. K. I. rococK ox [Mar. 17, 



in the Gardens came from widely separated localities — one from 

 Kalimpong, near Darjiling, and the othei' fi'om Selangor, in the 

 Malay Peninsula. Identific'ation of the former necessarily entailed 

 examination of all the available mateiial from the Himalayas, 

 which resulted in the discoveiy of one or two undescribed foi-ms. 

 The Kalimpong specimen itself proves to be a representative of 

 an unnamed local race, distinguishable from the typical Nepalese 

 I'ace described by Hodgson, the name of which has hitherto been 

 applied to all the Serows of the Himalayas. For the opportunity 

 to describe a second Himalayan race I am indebted to Major G. S. 

 Rodon, F.Z.S., who very kindly sent to me the perfect skin and 

 skull of a specimen shot by himself at Chamba. A third hitherto 

 unnamed local race from these mountains is exemplified in the 

 British Museum by a mounted head from Kashmir belonging to 

 the Hume collection. Finally, the determination of the example 

 fi-om Selangor showed that it, too, was nameless, since it presented 

 characters not previously recorded in any race of Serows. These 

 charactei'S I consider worthy of nominal i-ecognition, Avhen taken 

 into consideration with the geographical distribution of the 

 animal. 



With regard to the two Gorals (^NoitnorheAus) the Society has 

 lately exhibited, these belonged to two very distinct species. One 

 of the specimens, which is still living, was pi-esented to the 

 Society by Major G. S. Rodon, F.Z.S., who brought it from 

 Chamba ; and I am indebted to Major Rodon for kindly sending 

 to me for examination a series of skins of specimens shot in the 

 same locality by His Highness the Maharajah of Chamba. The 

 second specimen came from the mountains of Korea, whence 

 Goi-als have not been previously recoi-ded, and was presented to 

 the Society by Mr. C. F. S. Bilborough, F.R.G.S. 



Although neither of these Gorals represents, in my opinion, an 

 undesci'ibed form, their determination revealed some hitherto 

 unrecorded facts touching the nomenclature, variability, and 

 distribution of some of the Gorals of North India and China. 



II. On the Serows (Capi-icoi'nis) of the Himalayas, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Sumatra. 



Genus Capricornis Ogilby. 



Noimorhedus Hamilton Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, v. 

 p. 352, 1827 (in part). 



Cajmcornis Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138; Gray, List Mamm. 

 B.M. pp. xxvi & 166, 1843 ; and subsequent works. 



Nemorhmdus Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mammalia, p. 512, 

 1891; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of India, p. 128, 1900, 

 and id. op. cit. nov. ed. p. 139, 1907. 

 * Cap-icornis Heude, Hist. Nat. Chinois, ii.pp. 222 k 234, 1894. 



Xemot7'agus-\- LithotragasA- Austritragus, id. op. cit. iv. pp. 13- 

 14, 1898. 



