1908.] SERO\YS AXD GORALS. 195 



horns and ripping open his abdomen. But in this particular 

 instance I have no first-hand knowledge of equality between the 

 contestants in the matter of age and condition, as I have in the 

 case of the Goral and the Ibex. 



K/EMORHEDUS HODGSOXI PoCOck. 



Abstr. P.Z. S. Ko. 55, p. 1271larch 17, 1908. 



JS'emorhedus (Antilope) goral Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 85. 



Cemas goral Blanford, Fauna of Brit. Ind., Mammalia, p. 516, 

 1891. 



Urotragus goral Lydekker, Zoologist, March 16th, 1905, p. 83 ; 

 id. Great and Small Game of India, nov. ed. p. 151, 1907 ; id. in 

 Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game, p. 342, 1907. 



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

 1825. 



General colour of type darkish golden brown speckled with 

 black, the individual hairs dark brown at the base, black at the 

 apex, and with an intermediate golden-brown or rufous area. 

 Forehead and nose deep reddish brown, becoming blacker towards 

 the root of the horns, a small black patch above the muzzle ; 

 cheeks yellowish brown, paler than body owing to the absence of 

 the black apical tip to the hairs ; inten'amal area not white but 

 stained with yellow, a brown patch on the chin ; lips yellowish 

 white ; throat-patch yellowish white, defined laterally by an 

 indistinct blackish streak. 



A black stripe extending from the head along the neck, whei'e 

 the hairs form a short mane, down the back to the root of the tail. 

 On the neck it is about 1 inch broad, but behind the shoulder it 

 gradually tapers away and almost disappears upon the lumbar and 

 sacral regions. A black patch on the chest ; belly greyish yellow. 

 Tail wholly black above, except for a few pale hairs at the side. 

 Area below the tail white above in the adanal region, 3'ello-ndsh 

 below on the inside of the thighs. From near the root of the 

 tail on each side extends a blackish-brown stripe down the back 

 of the thigh and leg to the hock, and this is continued from the 

 hock to the fetlock and beneath the " dew-claws " to the hoof ; 

 front of hind legs below the hock golden brown, with commonly a 

 blackish stripe. Fore legs golden brown, with a black patch over 

 the knee and black hairs extending in the middle line thence both 

 below and above the knee, where the hairs are a bright, almost 

 fiery, brown. Horns but little curved, 4;? inches long, corrugated 

 and ringed basally, basal antero-posterior width "^ of an inch 

 (23 mm.). Ear-ca"vity about 34 inches long. 



Zoc. (of type). Sikhim {W.~T. Blavford; no. 91.10.7.169 in 

 B.M.) ; also Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). 



In addition to the typical skin above described, there are in the 

 British Museum three other skins referable, I think, to this 

 race of Goral. They are ticketed Nepal {B. H. Hodgson ; nos. 

 45.1.8.325-327). In the largest of these the general colour is 



