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



of Ohamba and kindly sent to me through Major Rodon, F.Z.S., 

 point to Dharmsala as the locality of the typical example of 

 iV. bedfordi. This specimen Mr. Lydekker described as yellowish 

 grey -fawn, suffused with blackish, which can be interpreted as 

 merely another way of describing the colour which conveyed to 

 Hardwicke the impression of " mouse-grey and darker." 



But, as one of the features distinctive of N. hedfordi, 

 Mr, Lydekker mentioned the large extension of the white of the 

 interramal area up the cheek. This exists undeniably in the 

 stuffed specimen ; but one's confidence in the systematic value of 

 the character is completely shattered by the entire absence of any 

 indication of it in the excellent photograph of the living animal, 

 taken by the Duchess of Bedford, which Mr. Lydekker has pub- 

 lished *. No one who looks at this photograph can for one moment 

 believe that the lower part of the cheek up to or even above the 

 level of the corner of the mouth was white or different in tint from 

 the rest of the cheek. The upward extension, therefore, of the 

 white in the stuffed specimen must be merely due to a taxidermic 

 distortion, unless the colour of this region changed between the 

 time of taking the photograph and the death of the animal, which 

 is unlikely. 



In view of the above-mentioned facts, the following conclusions 

 appear to me to be inevitable : — (1) That the type of N. goral 

 was the "grey" Himalayan form; (2) that Mr. Lydekker re- 

 described tliis form as N. bedfordi. And from this it follows that 

 the " brown " Himalayan Goral is up to the present time without 

 a specific name. From the nature of the differences separating 

 the "grey" and "brown" Gorals I think it probable that they 

 will be found to intergrade. Up to the present, however, there 

 is, so far as I am aware, no proof of the fact. Since the two forms 

 have been recorded from Nepal it is possible, as Mr. Lydekker has 

 suggested, that they occur at different altitudes in the Himalayas. 

 Pending additions to our kiiowledge in these particulars, I propose 

 to follow Mr. Lydekker in treating these Gorals as distinct 

 species. 



N^MORHEDUS GORAL Hardwicke. 



Antilope goral Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 518, 

 pi. xiv., 1825. 



Urotragus bedfordi Lydekker, Zoologist, March 16th, 1905, 

 p. 83 ; id. Gi-eat and Small Game of India, nov. ed. p. 151, 1907 ; 

 id. in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game, p. 343, fig. p. 348, 

 1907. 



Prevailing colour yellowish grey, speckled or suffused to a 

 varying extent with black, so that the depth of the tint varies 

 considerably individually, but the pale band in the hairs is always 

 yellowish grey and never rufous or brown. Forehead suflused 

 with rusty yellow, the same tint traceable on the sides of the 



* ' Zoologist,' 1905, pi. i. ; ' Great and Small Game of India,' p. 137, 1900 ; nov. ed. 

 1907, p. MQ; Eowland Ward's ' Records of Eig Game,' 1907, p. 348. 



