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head below the eye the rufous speckling is much more in evidence, 

 and it is particularly well marked on the corners of the upper lip 

 and at the base of the ear in front and up the back of that organ. 

 Upper lip, lower lip, and chin white ; the white from the chin 

 extending backwards along the jaw and over the interramal ai'ea 

 to the upper pai't of the throat, where it expands into a con- 

 spicuous patch. In the centre of the interramal area, behind the 

 chin, there is a distinct elongated patch of dusky-brown hair, and 

 behind this patch the hairs of the interramal area and of the 

 throat-patch ai-e not wholly white but apically infuscate. On 

 the shoulders and on the sides of the body the rufous area in the 

 hairs gradually increases in extent, so that the g-eneral colour 

 above the white of the belly is markedly browner than that of the 

 back. The outer side of the fore leg is rufous brown, intermixed 

 with white in front, down to a point two inches above the knee, 

 a,nd the outer side of the hind leg down from the root of the tail 

 nearly to the hock is also rufous brown, becoming mixed with 

 white inferiorly. The chest, including the Avhorls of hair, the 

 belly, the insides of the thighs and of the upj^er part of the fore 

 legs, and the whole of the legs from above the knees and hocks are 

 milk-white, and sharply defined by their colour from the adjacent 

 rufous-brown areas. Only on the chest is the white clouded with 

 a, faint brown tinge. The tail, which is triangular and 2 inches 

 long, is brownish black above, like the back. 



The coat is long and shaggy, with a long and copious mane on 

 the neck. The hairs on the sides of the body measure about 

 3 inches, and on the dorsal line of the neck about 8 inches in 

 length. The underfur is plentiful. 



The hoi^ns are 8 inches long and 4|- inches in basal circumference 



Total length of skin from tip of nose to root of tail 52 inches, 

 distance from middle line of shoulder to hoof 34. Tail (skin) 

 14 inches. 



Loc. Ohamba. 



This Serow difiers from examples received from Hodgson from 

 jSTepal, and referable to typical G. s. thar, both in coloration and 

 the structure of the skull. In the matter of colora,tion the 

 difference lies principally in the clean whiteness of the whole 

 of the under side, and its sharp definition from the rufous-brown 

 or rufous hue of the sides of the body, and also in the backward 

 extension of the white of the interramal area on to the throat, 

 where it forms a conspicuous white patch. In C. s. thar the 

 patch on the throat is absent or represented by a, few white hairs, 

 and these are not continuous with the white running along the 

 anterior portion of the lower jaw behind the chin. The under 

 side is not clean white, but dusky brownish grey, the hairs being 

 whitish at the base and sooty gi'ey distally, and the colour of the 

 sides of the body gradually blends with that of the belly and 

 chest. C s. thar is also apparently a shorter and thinner coated 

 form, and the underfur if present at all is scanty. Blanford, 

 indeed (op. cit. p. 513), says " no underfur." 



