190 MR. R. I. PococK ON [Mar. 17, 



brought by Hodgson from Nepal is intermediate, or nearly so, 

 between two others from that country and the one from Kashmir. 

 The skull from Selangor, however, can be at once singled out 

 from the others by its general aspect and dimensions. 



The seven geographical races of Serow [Cajyricornis siinia- 

 traensis) discussed above may be distinguished externally as 

 follows : — 



Of. Legs below the knees and liocks white, whitish, or fawu 

 and lighter than the area above these joints*. 

 h. Head pale chocolate-brown, not appreciabb' intermixed 



with black humei. 



h' . Head black or brownish black. 



c. Breast and under side white, and sharply defined from 



the dark colour of the rest of the Ijody, which is 



covered with a thick coating of long black hair tinged 



with red ; underfur conspicuous ; a distinct and large 



white patch on the throat rodoni. 



c. Breast and under side at most dirty white and blending 



with the dark colour of the rest of the body, the hair 



of which is scantier and darker with little if any 



underfur ; at most a small patch on the throat. 



d. Under side dirty white or rufous white ; the coat 



less black ; lower portion of legs white or faintly 



tinged with fawn tliar. 



d'. Under side blackish red ; the coat jet-black ; lower 

 portion of legs very decidedly tinged with fawn 



on the cannon-bone jamrachi. 



a' . Legs below the knees and hocks black, not lighter than 

 area above these joints f 

 e. Scarcely any red in the mane and on the white patch 

 on the under jaw. 

 f. Mane for the most part hoary grey and forming a 



large thick mat on the withers sumatraensis. 



f . Mane less grey and not forming a large mat on the 



withers rohinsoni. 



e'. A considerable quantity of red in the mane and on the 



patch on the under jaw swcttenhami. 



III. On the Gorals (Ntemorhedus) of the Himalayas^ Burma, 

 and China. 



Up to the end of 1904 only one species of Goral was known 

 from the Himalayas; but in the 'Zoologist' for March 1905, 

 pp. 81-84, Mr. Lydekker correctly pointed out that two types of 

 Goral occur in those mountains, one in the western and the other 

 in the more eastern portions of the range, the two meeting in Nepal. 

 To the eastern form, termed the "brown" Goral, the specific 

 name goral was restricted ; while the western form, termed the 

 "grey" Goral, was described as a new species under the name 



* Not known for certain in the case of C. s. liumei. 



f Some Chinese Serows ari intermediate in tlie coloration of the legs between 

 C. s. jamrachi and C. s. sumatraensis. For instance, C. s. milne-edtvardsi from 

 Eastern Tibet has the lower legs rusty yellow, and an example in the British 

 Museum from Sze-chuen (Berezowski), referable to C. s. argyrochates, has the 

 cannon-bone blackish in front and rufous elsewhere. 



