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



Loc. Koreca : "Wcinsan (?). 



A livino- .specimen of this Goral was presented to the Society 

 by Mr. O.^F. Bilborough, F.R.G.S., on Feb. 5, 1907, and died on 

 Jnne 30, 1907. Mrs. Bilborough informed me that it "came 

 from the high chain of mountains that runs down the whole 

 length of Korea, rising at Wonsan to 12,000 feet high." 



I cannot distinguish the skin of this Korean specimen specifi- 

 cally or even subspecifically from three Goral skins pi'esented to 

 the British Museum by Mr. Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., and ticketed 

 "Western Provinces of China" (nos. 99.3.5.1-3 in B.M. Register); 

 and, so far as I can judge, they are all referable to the species 

 from Amurland, wrongly identified by Eadde as Antilo2Je {Ca^prina) 

 crispa of Temminck, and rightly renamed Kemas raddeanns by 

 Heude. 



NcBiniorhedus raddeanus was regarded by Trouessai't as a sub- 

 species of N. caudaUts M. -Edwards, presumably because of the 

 length of the tail. In the British Museum there is a topotyj)ical 

 example of N. ccmdcdus from Pekin, collected by Mr. F. W. Styan 

 (Reg. no. 90.7.8.6). This specimen has the thick, long woolly 

 coat observable in the above-mentioned examples referred to 

 iY. raddeamis, and the tail also is practically of the same length, 

 as the following measurements shoAv : — 



Skin of tail. Tail (including hair). 



jSF. caudafMS {yonug) 4 inches. about 13 inches. 



N. raddeanus {\ S) 5 ,, ,, 10 ,, 



(2 2) H „ „ 13 „ 



(3yg.) 41 ,, „ 11 „ 



(Korea) 4| „ „ 15 ,, 



Nevertheless, the example of K. caudatiis^ which agrees with 

 M. -Edwards's description and figmeof the type, difiers from those 

 identified as N. raddeanus in having the legs below the knees and 

 hocks almost wholly fawn-coloured in front, the fetlocks and 

 pasterns being the same tint as the cannon-bones, and also in 

 having the tail much blacker, both above and below. Hence 

 there are well-marked differences between X. caudatus and 

 y. raddean'us. Intermediates possibly, perhaps probably, exist ; 

 but until they come to hand I think it premature to regard 

 K. raddeamis as a subspecies of JS' . caudatus. 



The specimens from the Western Province of China exhibit 

 variation in colour worth putting on record. The male specimen 

 (no. 99.3.5.1) closely resembles the Korean example, being dark 

 grey mingled with blackish brown, the upper side of the tail being- 

 of the same dark hue as the back ; the fore leg is black in front 

 down to the knee, and the outer and posteiior sides of the lower leg 

 are also black, but the fetlock and anterior and inner side of this 

 region are white, the area above the outer false hoof being black 

 and above the inner white. Similarly the hind legs are blackish 

 both in front and behind, the fetlocks and pasterns being whitish 



