202 ON SEROWS AND GORALS. [Mar. 17, 



three specimens from Icliang in the British Museum. In one 

 specimen, a yonng one collected by Mr. Styan, the horns lie back 

 practically in the same line as the forehead ; in a second obtained 

 by the same collector they rise slightly more ; and in a third sent 

 by Mr. P. Montgomery they are still more elevated, forming an 

 obtuse angle with the frontal bone very much as in the type of 

 ]\^. arnouxianus. 



The external characters of the Gorals {Kcemorhedus), whether 

 they be regarded as species or subspecies, discussed in the pre- 

 ceding pages, may be analysed as follows : — 



a. Skin of tail about 3 inches long in the adult ; black stripe 

 on fore leg extending over the middle of the knee (carpus) 

 and usually continued thence down the middle line ot the 

 cannon-bone (metacarpus) to the front of the fetlock. 

 (Himalayas.) 



I. Prevailing colour grej' or fawn-grey, more or less suffused 

 with black ; black spinal stripe usually v.'holly absent, 

 when present not passing beyond withers (shoulders) ; 

 tail black at the end ; no black up back of thighs gored. 



V. Prevailing colour brown, more or less suffused with 

 black; black spinal stripe present in adult and sub- 

 adult examples, and extending at least on to the lumbo- 

 sacral area ; a black stripe down the upper side of the 

 tail and an ill-defined black stripe running up the back 

 of each thigh from the hock hodgsoni. 



a'. Skin of tail about 5 inches long in adult ; black stripe on 

 fore leg not passing over the middle line of the knee 

 (carpus), but turning aside at that area and commonly 

 continued down the outer side of the cannon-bone (meta- 

 carpus) to the outer false hoof and thence on to the back 

 of the fetlock and pastern. (North China to Arakan.) 



c. Coat comparativelj^ short and not woolly even in the 



winter ; tail less bushy (tail-tuft black above and below ; 



throat-patch more or less yellow, at least marginallj') . . . grisezis *. 

 c'. Coat, at least in the winter, long, shaggy-, and more or 



less woolly ; tail-tuft long and copious (throat-patch 



without yellow). 



d. Legs below knees and hocks nearly uniformly faven in 

 front and externally; tail-tuft black, much darker 

 than the proximal portion of the organ and than the 

 back of the body ; a narrow white fringe of hairs 

 bordering the tail below caiidatus. 



d' . Front of legs below knees and hocks to a certain but 

 varying extent fuscous and contrasted in colour 

 with the white or dirty-white tint of the feet ; upper 

 side of the tail the same colour as the back, bvit 

 not wholly black ; a broad white fringe bordering 

 the tail below raddeanus. 



* I suspect that N. ciiiereus A. M.-Edwards (Rech. Mamm. p. 362, pi. Ixx. et seq., 

 1874) from Eastern Tibet will prove to beat most subspecifically distinct from 

 N.griseus, in spite of the differences in the skull and teeth pointed out by the describer. 

 By Trouessart (Cat. Mamm. Suppl. p. 734, 1905) both of these Gorals are erroneously 

 classified with the Serows. 



