THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 765.— March, 1905. 



THE GOEALS OF INDIA AND BUEMA. 



By R. Lydekker, F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plate I.) 



A well-known big-game sportsman, Major G. H. Evans, of 

 the Indian Veterinary Department at Eangoon, has recently 

 forwarded to me a couple of skins of Gorals shot by himself some 

 distance to the westward of Mount Victoria, in the Pakokku 

 district of Upper Burma. In sending these specimens by a 

 friend, he expressed his belief that they indicated an undescribed 

 species, or race. This opinion I am able to endorse, as these 

 skins are certainly very different from those of the typical 

 Himalayan Goral (Urotragus, or Cemas, goral). 



In this, of course, there is nothing surprising, as it is only 

 what we should expect to be the case ; but an examination of 

 the skins in the British Museum has also led to the conclusion 

 that there are two perfectly distinct forms of Himalayan Goral, 

 which is certainly an unexpected development. 



What I take to be the typical Himalayan Goral, as represented 

 by skins in the British Museum collected by Brian Hodgson 

 during his official residence at Khatmandu, is a rufous brown 

 animal, only slightly paler below than on the back, with the 

 face somewhat lighter and more rufous, but darkening towards 

 the horns ; and a white or whitish area on the throat and chin. 

 Along the back, from nape to tail, runs a very conspicuous black 

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