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which is the type, was given to Colonel Appleton in 1882 

 liy a local shikari, who had recently shot the animal to 

 which it belonged on Chialtan. Length of horns, on outer 

 cnrve, 34^, do. in a straight line 26, girth 9, tip-to-tip 

 interval 13J inches. Presented ly Col. H. Appleton, 1913. 



V. Genus HEMITRAGUS. 



Hemitragus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. x, p. 913, 1841 ; 

 Gray, Cat. tjngulata Brit. Mus. p. 144, 1852, Cat. Buminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 51, 1872 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 

 p. 508, 1891 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 866. 



Kemas, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 146, 1852, neo Ogilby. 



Horns heteronymous, short, and sweeping backwards in a 

 regular curve ; in females not much smaller than in males. 

 Teats, in some cases at any rate, four; tail much as in 

 Capra ; face-glands and normally foot-glands absent, although 

 there may occasionally be vestiges of the latter in the hind- 

 feet. No beard on chin in males, which in winter and early 

 spring exhale a strong odour, differing from that of goats and 

 recalling the smell of cormorants and frigate-birds.* 



The distribution includes the outer and middle ranges of 

 the Himalaya, the Nilgiri, Anamalai, and certain other south 

 Indian ranges, and the mountains of south-eastern Arabia. 



The three species may be distinguished as follows : — 



A. Horns compressed with, flattened sides and a sharp 



front keel. 



a. Size large, horns strongly ridged and knotted ... H. jemlahious. 



b. Size smaller, horns with slighter ridges and 



knots S. jayakari. 



B. Horns with the inner surface nearly flat and the 



outer highly convex, a low compressed ridge 

 on inner front edge, and the posterior surface 

 rounded H. hylocrius. 



I. HEMITEAGUS JEMLAHIOUS. 



Caprg, jemlanioa (jemlahioa on plate), H. Smith, Q-riffith's Animal 

 Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 308, 1827 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, 

 p. 317. 



Capra jemlahioa, H. Smith, op. cit. vol. v, p. 358, 1827 ; Jardine, 

 Nat. Libr. Mamm. vol. iv, p. 117, 1836. 



* Pocock, loa. cit. 



