26 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



THE GORAL. 



NeMOEH^DUS GORAL. 



Antilope goral, HardwicJce, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xiv, p. 518, 



pi. xiv, 1825. 

 Antilope (Nemorlieclus) goral, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 85, 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. iv, p. 488, 1835. 

 Kemas goral, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 138 ; Hodgson, Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 607, 1847. 

 Nemorhedus goral. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 166, 1843, Cat. 



Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 112, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus- 



p. 41, 1872 ; Horsfield, Cat. E. Indian Mus. p. 168, 1851. 

 Cemas goral, Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 516, 1891. 

 Urotragus goral, Lydehher, Great and Small Game of India, p. 136, 



1900. 

 Urotragus bedfordi, LydeJcker, Zoologist, 1905, p. 83 ; Ward, Records 



of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 342, 1910. 

 Nfemorhedus goral, Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 192. 



In employing Nemorhmclus for the gorals instead of the 

 serows, the writer has followed Mr. Pocock, although he con- 

 siders such a change much to be deprecated, especially as in 

 Hamilton Smith's original description the name N. suriia- 

 trensis stands first. As regards the spelling of the name, 

 Nmmorhedus is etymologically wrong, as the word is derived 

 from iiciiius (gen. neinoris), a wood, and hccdus, a young goat. 

 Hamilton Smith himself seems to have been uncertain with 

 regard to the spelling, as on p. 277 of vol. iv. of the " Animal 

 Kingdom," he has N^emorhfedine Group, while in the fifth 

 volume he employed Nwinorhedus, and in the "Naturalists' 

 Library," Nmrnorhctdits. 



The following specimens may belong either to the present 

 species (jv to N. hodgsoni, Pocock {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, 

 p. 195). 



56.— 12. 10. 31. 41. Skull and horns. Near Masuri, 

 Garhwal. In this specimen, which stands No. 14 in Mr. 

 Ward's list, the horns measure 7i inches in length by 3 in 

 girth, with a tip-to-tip interval of 2^ inches. The record 

 length for goral-horns is 9| inches. 



57. — 12. 10. 31. 42. Skull and horns. Kumaon. 



