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MR. R. LYDEKKER ON 



[Nov. 3, 



My only doubt is whether the name tihetanus, as being some- 

 what misleading, ought not to give place to sinensis. On the 

 other hand, it is possible that the species may cross the border 

 -dividing Sze-chuen from Tibet. 



Text-fiff. 169. 



Skull and horns of old male of the Sze-chuen Takin, collected by Mr. J. W. Brooke 



Coming to the Bhutan Takin, which I described in the ' Field ' 

 for 1907 (vol. ex. p. 887) as a small local race of the typical 

 species under the name of Budorcas taxicolor ivhitei, giving also a 

 preliminaiy notice in the Society's ' Proceedings ' for the sarue 



