178 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON [Mar. 17, 



Capricornis thar Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138; Pocock, Ann. 

 Mag. Fat. Hist. (8) i. p. 187, 1908. 



Antilojye huhalina Hodgson, P. Z.S. 1832, p. 12. 



Nemorhcedus or Capricornis huhaUnus (in part) of most recent 

 authors. 



Hitherto only one kind of Serow has been distinguished in the 

 Himalayan area. Of late years this has been invariably but 

 erroneously cited as Ncemorhedus huhalinus, after the example 

 set by Blanford in his volume on the Mammalia of British India. 

 Blanford, however, quite candidly pointed out that the oldest 

 and therefore the correct specific (or subspecific) name for this 

 animal was thar. Unfortunately this disregard for the rules of 

 priority has been followed by authors who succeeded him. The 

 early literature dealing with this Serow has been here repeated to 

 emphasise the fact that thar is its proper name. 



The only material of this race that I have been able to examine 

 are four stuffed skins in the British Museum. Two of these 

 belonged to Hodgson's collection and came from Nepal. They 

 are the co-types or syntypes of the race ; a third also came from 

 Nepal ; and a fourth, which appears to be inseparable from the 

 others, was from Sikhim and belonged to Dr. Blanford, who 

 mentioned it in his volume on Indian Mammals. 



The characters of this race are briefly but, for my present 

 purpose, sufficiently enumerated in the following pages. 



Subsp. HUMEi Pocock. 



Abstr. P. z7s. No. 55, p. 12, March 17, 1908. 



Distinguishable from the other geogi-aphical races of Serows 

 occurring more to the east in the Himalayas by having the whole 

 head a uniform pale chocolate-brown without any intermixtvire of 

 black. Some black hairs amongst the brown on the anterior part 

 of the neck. Anterior part of the lower jaw on each side white ; 

 no white throat-patch. 



Log. Kashmir. 



Type. The mounted head of an adult example in the British 

 Museum formerly belonging to the collection of Mr. A. 0. Hume. 



Further evidence of the distinctness of the Kashmir form 

 from the typical G. s. thar is supplied by the skull of a specimen, 

 formerly belonging to Mr. R. Lydekker, from Pir Punjal in 

 Kashmir. This skull differs in a number of particulars from two 

 skulls of C. s. thar obtained by Hodgson in Nepal — particulars 

 which combine to make the general " facies " of the skulls from 

 the two localities very different. In the Kashmir skull the cheek- 

 teeth • are smaller, the palate wider, and the frontals and nasals 

 more convex. The last-mentioned is the first distinctive feature 

 that catches the eye upon a superficial glance at the skulls. 

 There is, of cou:rse, no actual proof that the skull of the type of 

 this race resembles the skull from Pir Punjal nor that the 

 colouring of the Pir Punjal specimen resembled that of the type. 



