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I. BUDOECAS TAXICOLOR. 



Budoroas taxicolor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Bengal, vol. xix, 

 p. 65, pi. i, 1850 ; Stemdale, Mam?n. India, p. 460, 1884 ; Hume, 

 Proc. Zool. Sac. 1887, p. 483 ; W. L. Salater, Gat. Mamm. Ind. 

 Mus. pt. ii, p. 151, 1891; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 

 p. 515, 1891; Lydehher, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 158, 

 1907, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1908, p. 795, Field, vol. cxxi, p. 93, 1913, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 22, 1913 ; Mitchell, Proc. Zool. 

 Soe. 1907, p. 464, 1909, p. 741 ; Bentham, Bee. Indian Mus. vol. ii, 

 p. 249, 1908 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 349, 1910 ; 

 Pocock, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Sac. 1910, p. 814, Proc. Zool. 

 8oo. 1910, p. 856. 



Budorcas taxioola. Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 45, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 32, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 101, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 231, 1863. 



Takin. 



Typical locality Mishmi Hills, north of Assan Valley. 



General colour of upper-parts varying from pale straw- 

 colour or yellowish dun grey through rufous to black; tlie 

 dun greV sometimes occupying the greater part of the back, 

 exclusive of the black dorsal stripe, which extends from 

 occiput to tail, but in other cases forming a larger or smaller 

 light saddle ; whole of head and neck, most of the under- 

 parts, tail, and limbs black. Horns, of which the maximum 

 recorded length is 25 inches, with a girth of 13, and a tip- 

 to-tip interval of llj inches, relatively thick. 



A.— BudoFcas taxicolor taxicolor. 



General characters those of species ; size large — shoulder- 

 height about SJ feet. The herds appear to vary in colour, 

 which may be reddish in one district, and dun in another a 

 few miles distant.* 



Typical locality Mishmi Hills. 



79. 11. 21. 662. Skin, mounted. Mishmi Hills ; collected 

 by 13. H. Hodgson, Esq. This and the next two specimens 

 are the co-types. Transferred from India Museum, 1879. 



53, 8. 16. 9. Skin, mounted, female. Mishmi Hills. 

 General colour of light areas yellow dun or straw-colour. 



Presented ly B. H. Hodgson, Usq., 1853. 



* See Field, vol. oxxi, p. 93, 1913. 



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