74 On the Tdkin of the Eastern Himalaya. [Jan. 



The dimensions of our animal and of its scull are as follows : — 



Male. Female. 



Length from snout to vent, 6 6 6 



Height at the shoulder, 3 6 3 



Length of head, to frontal crest, 1 6 1 4 



Length of ears, 5 \ 5 



Length of tail only, 3 2 f 



Length of tail and hair, 8 6 



Length of horns by curve, 1 8 1 2 J- 



Basal girth of horn, 1 9 \ 



Basal interval of horns, f \ 



Terminal interval of horns, 1 6 \ 



Length of fore-hoof, along sole, 4 \ 4 



Width of ditto ditto, 3 \ 3 



Height of ditto, oblique, to end of toe, .... 030 030 



Scull of Male. 



Length from parietes to symp : intermax : straight, 1 6 \ 



Ditto, from crest of frontals to ditto, 1 5 \ 



Height extreme, 10 



Length, extreme, of lower jaw, 1 1 \ 



Length of series of lower jaw grinders, 5 \ 



Length of largest grinder of lower jaw, 1 f 



Width of ditto on crown, \ 



Length of nasal bones, 6 \ 



Length entire of frontals from an teal apices to parietes,. ... 6 f 

 Length of frontals from fore-angle of orbits to frontal crest, 4 f 



Width of forehead between nearest angles of orbits, 6 \ 



Ditto between widest angles of orbits, 7 -f 



Diameter of orbits, 2 \ 



P. S. In the above account of a most interesting animal, which is 

 clearly the type of a new genus of the Bovine Antelopes, or Budorcine 

 Sub-family of the Bovidse, I have purposely avoided throwing my facts 

 into the mould of a generic character, with reference to the unsettled 

 state of information and opinion regarding the group of which the 

 Takin is a very characteristic, and I think the most characteristic 

 type. But, whoever shall have priorly adjusted the characters of the 

 Sub-family with those of its included genera, must find the selection of 



