1908.] 



SEROWS AND GORALS. 



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nose ; cheeks grey, interramal area and chin white ; upper lip 

 white, stained with yellow at the sides. Throat-patch yellowish 

 or snow-white, sometimes set off by a darker border ; ears mouse- 

 grey or yellowish externally. Between the horns a tuft of dark 

 or black hair intermixed with white ; usually there is no black 

 spinal stripe either on the neck or body, but the hairs on the 

 middle line of the neck show up as distinctly darker than the 

 sides, owing to their partially erect position revealing the slate- 

 grey colour of the basal portion. In one specimen, however, the 



Text-fio-. 37. 



Namorhediis goral Hardw. 

 Photograph of specimou from Chamba, now living in the Society's Gardens. 



hairs on the middle line of the neck and withers have long black 

 tips, which run together to form a distinct blackish line. Tail the 

 same colour as the back in its basal half*, but the tip with a 

 longish tuft of hairs black throughout. Skin of tail white below. 

 Subcaudal area fringed with white hairs. No blackish stripe 

 extending up the buttocks from the legs. Colour of legs very 

 variable ; fore legs usually with a well - defined black stripe 



* In Mr. Lydekker's description oi If. hedfordi the "base" of the tail, instead of 

 the" tip," is described as blackish. 



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