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hedfordi. Apart from the noticeable difference in colour between 

 the two, the "brown" Goral is further distinguished by the 

 presence of a black spinal stripe which is absent, at least on the 

 back and tail, in the " grey " form. 



Now, Aiblilope gored was first described by Hardwicke (Tr. 

 Linn. Soe. xiv. p. 518, 1825). The description, taken from a 

 living animal, states that the hair was of a " grey mouse-colour 

 (but almost white about the lower part of the neck and throat), 

 and darker ; it is longer along tlie upper part of the neck and 

 back, inclining to ferruginous about the legs.*' Similarly the 

 Latin diagnosis says : " Oorpore supra colore murino canescente, 

 subtus pallidiore, gula albente." 



It is, in my opinion, impossible to maintain that Hardwicke 

 can have described as " grey mouse-coloured " an animal which is 

 'not grey, and which was regarded independently by Hodgson as 

 " rusty and brown " ; by Dr. Blanford as " brown, more or less 

 rufous " *; and by Mr. Lydekker as " rufous brown." Hardwicke's 

 use of the terms " grey " and " canescent " as applied to the body and 

 the contrast that he draws between that colour and the inclination 

 to a ferruginous tint on the legs make unavoidable the conclusion 

 that the specimens i^pon which the specific name goral was based 

 represented a form identical with or very closely allied to the one 

 that Mr. Lydekker spoke of as the " grey " Goral and named 

 Urotragus hedfordi. 



It must be par-ticularly borne in mind, too, that although 

 Hardwicke noticed the length of the hair on the upper part of the 

 neck and back in the type of his species, he made no mention of 

 the presence of the black spinal stripe so conspicuous in adults of 

 the " brown " Goral. The figure, it is true, shows such a stripe 

 on the neck and withers ; but this is sometimes pi-esent in speci- 

 mens of the " grey " Goral, and is very noticeable in the living 

 example of the latter now in the Zoological Gardens when the 

 neck-hairs are parted. 



The description of N. goral was taken from a male specimen 

 living in the menagerie at Bari'ackpore, near Calcutta, which had 

 been previously the property of the Court at Katmandu in Nepal ; 

 and there is a skin of a "grey" specimen in the British Museum, 

 ticketed Nepal (Maharajah Dhuleep Singh; 55.1.20.5), Avhich 

 Mr. Lydekker identified as JSf. hedfordA. 



For the type of N. hedfordi, a mounted specimen now in the 

 British Museum (Reg. no. 97.4.3.1) and at one time the property 

 of the Duke of Bedford, no locality was known. The specimen, 

 however, as His Grace has kindly informed me, was imported by 

 Mr. William Jamrach ; and I learn from Mr. Jamrach that he 

 formerly procured Gorals from Dharmsala. This circumstance 

 and the similarity between the specimen named N. hedfordi and 

 a series of skins of Gorals from Chamba, shot by H.H. the Rajah 



* This autlior adds " or greyish." Be it remembered, however, that he had access 

 to the material in the British Museum containing a specimen of the "grey" Goral, 

 which he apparently did not distinguish from the "brown" form. 



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