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say, intermediate between the ferruginous tint of the fii-st and the 

 white tint of those of the second specimen. The edges of the 

 throat-patch are also yellower than in the others. Since these 

 specimens were of the same sex and from the same locality, and 

 since the fii'st and second were shot on the same day, it does not 

 appear that these colour-difi'erences are either sexual or seasonal. 

 They are perhaps due in part to differences of age and in part to 

 innate individual variability. 



Berezowski's specimens from Sze-chuen are inseparable from 

 the richest-coloured example from Ichang. They were shot in 

 January. The coat is richly coloured brown and grey. In one 

 the feet are fawn, in the other nearly white. 



I cannot find any reliable character to distinguish these speci- 

 mens from iV. griseus, judging from the description and figure of 

 the latter. 



A further point to be noted is this. A Goral from Ichang was 

 recorded by Dr. Henry as Kemas henryanus (P. Z. S. 1890, p. 93). 

 This name was quoted as having been already published by Heude. 

 But Heude's description of Kemas henryanus was not issued appa- 

 rently until 1894, when it appeared in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Ohinois, ii. p. 244 ; and since Dr. Henry's citation was accom- 

 panied by the phrase " The Ichang animal stands as high as a 

 Sheep," he mvist be regarded as the author*. Furthermore, 

 Dr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1890, p. 94, note) refers the Ichang example 

 in the British Museum, collected by Mr. P. Montgomery, to 

 JSfcemorhedus henryanus. This Ichang Goral may possibly prove 

 to be subspecifically distinguishable from the typical R. griseus 

 when topotypical examples of the latter come to hand for com- 

 parison ; but for the present I think it must be referi-ed to that 

 form. 



Finally, I am convinced that Mr. Lydekker described the same 

 animal as Urotragus evansi ('Zoologist,' (4) ix. p. 83, 1905 ; id. in 

 Rowland Ward's ' Records of Big Game,' p. 343, 1907). Of this 

 there are two cotypical examples in the British Museum from 

 Mt. Victoria in the Pokokku district of Arakan {Major Evans : 

 5.7.21.1-2). They are quite young animals with the horns 

 measuring only 3 inches in length. They difier in no important 

 particulars, so far as I can ascertain, from the Ichang and Sze-chuen 

 specimens that I refer to ^. griseus. Moreover, in the summer of 

 1903 Mrs. Mumford sent to me for identification the skins of three 

 " Goats " shot by her late husband, Mr. G. E. Mumford, District 

 Superintendent of the Burma Police, at Kyank-pin-daung in the 

 Arakan Hills. When compared with the matei-ial in the British 

 Museum, these skins proved to be indistinguishable from those 

 from Sze-chuen and Ichang, mentioned above, which I could not 

 separate from iV. griseus. Hence, although no new name could be 

 introduced, the real credit of being the first to send home material 

 showing that the Arakan Goral is distinct from the Himalayan 



* Trouessart erroneously cites K. henryanus as " nomen nudum." 



