MAMMALS FROM CENTRAL CHINA. 695 



is only in accordance with the indications furnished by the 

 remainder of Mr. Anderson's collections, as brought out in the 

 paper No. XIII. of the present series *. 



With regard to other names that have been given in the genus 

 Budorcas, Mr. Lydekkerf has shown that both sinensis and mitcheUi 

 are synonymous with tibetanics, so that there appears to be no 

 existing name which comes into question in now describing this 

 beautiful species. 



It may be noted that on each side of the withers of the two 

 females there is a large patch of grey hairs, these hairs being horny 

 whitish, curiously ringed or beaded with black. Similar hairs 

 have been found on a specimen of B. tibetanics, and so would 

 appear to be natural and not discoloured artificially as I at first 

 supposed. No such patch is present on the male. 



Mr. Anderson has sent me the following further notes on this 

 animal : — 



" Takin. — Found in large herds on Tai-pei-san, where it lives 

 in precipitous places at from 9,000 to 11,000 ft. altitude. Its 

 food is bamboo grass ; a small bamboo very common at these 

 altitudes. Althovxgh apparently clumsy, I found these animals 

 very alert, and capable of picking their way very deftly and 

 rapidly down steep mountain sides. A herd my companions 

 and I saw seemed to contain about 40 individuals ; Chinese 

 hunters reported another herd of 80. These herds seem quite 

 isolated on the peaks of Tai-pei-san. Travelling westward we 

 did not hear of any Takins again till we reached Pie-kou in 

 Southern Kansu, and I am in doubt whether this was the same 

 animal or not, 



Chinese name : — Pan-yang ; at Tai-pei. The species in Sze- 

 chwan is called Yei-nu = Wild Cow. The name Pan-yang is also 

 applied to a m.ountain sheep or goat." 



30. Nemorh^dus sp. 



? . 2188. 30 miles S. of Feng-hsiang-fu, S. Shen-si. 10,000'. 

 Near the Long-tailed Goral (JV. caudatus M.-Edw.). 



31. CaPREOLUS BEDFORDI ThoS. 



c? . 2153 (young). $ . 2177, 2187. 30 miles S. of Feng-hsiang- 

 fu. 3600'. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXIX. 

 The Chinese Takin {Budorcas bedfordi). Male. 



P. Z. S. 1911, p. 158. t P. Z. S. 1908, p. 795. 



