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dorsal streak ; the tail is wholly black above ; and there is a 

 blackish stripe down the front of the legs, which are elsewhere 

 brown. 



In the ' Fauna of British India ' Mr. Blanford makes no 

 mention of any colour-variation according to season, age, or 

 sex ; but Mr. Sterndale, in his work on the Mammals of 

 India, states that the does and young are lighter-coloured than 

 old bucks. On the other hand, General Maclntyre, in his 

 ' Hindu-Koh,' states that the doe is like the buck in appearance, 

 except for her thinner horns. He describes the colour as uni- 

 form greyish brown, with a white throat-patch. 



At least three skins in the Hodgson collection conform to the 

 above-mentioned brown type ; but a fourth skin, with part of 

 the skull, in the same collection, which appears to represent a 

 fully adult animal, differs by 'its decidedly greyish fawn colour, 

 the absence of a distinct dark dorsal stripe, and in certain other 

 details. On the evidence of this one specimen I should have had 

 considerable hesitation in admitting the existence of two forms 

 of Himalayan Goral. The British Museum possesses, however, 

 a mounted Goral skin, presented in 1897 by the Duke of Bedford, 

 which belonged to an animal formerly living in His Grace's park 

 at Woburn, and believed to be of Himalayan origin. This 

 specimen agrees precisely with the one last mentioned. Its 

 general colour is light yellowish grey-fawn, suffused with blackish ; 

 the white throat-patch extends largely on to the cheeks ; there 

 is no dorsal stripe ; the muzzle has a dark median streak ex- 

 tending to the level of the eyes ; the tail is blackish only at the 

 base; and the fore legs have only a blackish "knee-cap," and 

 the hind pair are wholly rufous fawn. In addition to these 

 striking differences of colour, the ears of this Goral are larger 

 than in the typical Brown Goral, and the horns are more curved 

 and rougher. Like the grey skin in the Hodgson collection, the 

 Duke of Bedford's specimen seems certainly to be adult, and is 

 apparently a male. I cannot think the differences between this 

 form and the typical Goral can be explained by season, sex, 

 or age. 



If this be so, we must assume either that the Himalayan 

 Goral exhibits dimorphism, or that there are two local races or 

 species, which must be presumed to inhabit separate areas or 



