312 MAJOR G. H. EVANS ON THE jNov. 14, 



the Burmans dare not venture into Cbin-laiid, tliey could afford 

 no definite information beyond that the Chins had told them that 

 thei-e were several of these animals on a certain high mountain 

 now known as Mount Victoria. Since then several Goral have 

 been shot there by policemen on outpost and others. 



During the season of 1896-97 I visited the Arakan Hill-tiucts, 

 which are merely a southern continuation of the Chin Hills into 

 the Akyab district of Arakan. Here again I came on a skull and 

 a skin (the latter in a very bad state of preservation) of this Goral. 

 This animal, from the horns evidently a female, was shot in the 

 hills at a place not very far distant, and local informants said that 

 thei'e were a fair number. Being unable to visit the place at 

 that time, I told a friend of the ground, and asked him to find 

 out if what T had heard was correct. He did so, and came 

 across some six animals, of which he shot a couple. One of these, 

 owing to the ground, it was impossible to recover. I sent a skull 

 for identification, and was informed that it was a Himalayan 

 Goral. I was unacquainted with the Indian Goral, but from the 

 descriptions in books I was not quite satisfied that it was the 

 same animal. Later on, while after Serow in the Shan range of 

 hills to the east of tlie Irrawaddy, I was much surprised ag-ain 

 to run across these animals. I was still more convinced that 

 the beast was not the same as the Indian Goral, so much so, 

 that I asked a friend to shoot an Indian Goral and send me a 

 head and skin, which he very kindly did. On comparison my 

 suspicions were confirmed. I was then most desirous to procure a 

 specimen for the British Museum, but luck was against me, as it 

 was a long time befoi-e I rail across them again. 



The following are the chief characteristics of these Goral : — 



General form. — Goat-like with sturdy limbs. Horns are 

 present in both sexes : those of the female are shorter, thinner, 

 and not so rough as those of the male. They are generally almost 

 parallel, i. e. only slightly divergent, and have a slightly backward 

 curve. The coat is moderately long, close, and the hair rather 

 coarse ; there is generally a well-marked underf ur. The mammse 

 are four in number. 



General colour. — A dark, more or less rat-gi'ey, with an 

 admixture of longish, dark, rufous-tipped hairs running through 

 the coat, but mostly on back and upper surface of body. In an 

 old buck the back, haunches, and npper portions of sides were 

 dark pepper-and-salt or giizzled grey. In a young specimen the 

 colour was generally lighter. There is no distinct dorsal stripe : 

 in a young animal a very faint but distinct brownish line was 

 traceable, extending from the nape to the dock, and in the skin 

 of a female also, when held in a good light, a darker brownish 

 median line could be discerned. The colour fades gradually on 

 the side to a dirty reddish white under the abdomen. The colour 

 about the back of the neck is a lighter grey than that of the body, 

 and the hair is longer. A distinct crest of longer hair of a 

 blackish-brown colour extends from between horns to behind the 



