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MR. A. DE CARLE SOWERBY ON 



GenUS NEMORHiEDUS *. ' 



There are some thirty-two (32) specimens of Goral in the 

 collection, representing, according to Heude, seveDteen (17) 

 species as follows : — 



1. 



Kemas cinereus. 



2 



specimens. 



Moupin. 







griseus. 



4 





3 3 



3. 



55 



pinchonianus. 



1 



specimen. 



W. Ssuchuan. 



4. 





xanthodeiros. 



1 



35 



33 



5. 



53 



fargesianus. 



6 



specimens. 



Chen-kou-ting. 



6. 



55 



curvieornis. 



2 



53 



53 3 5 



7. 



55 



init talis. 



3 



33 



55 5 3 



8. 



55 



iodinus. 



1 



specimen. 



55 5 5 



9. 



55 



versicolor. 



2 



specimens. 



53 55 



10. 



55 



niger. 



1 



specimen. 



35 55 



11. 



55 



galeanus. 



2 



specimens. 



Mountains of Yu-ho, Shensi. 



12. 



55 



vidianus. 



2 



55 



., „ S. Shensi, 













and Si-ngan-fu. 



13. 



55 



fantozatianus. 



1 



specimen. 



N.W. Houpei (Hupei). 



14. 



55 



li envy anus. 



1 



55 



Yi-chang (I-chang). 



15. 



55 



aldrigeanus. 



1 



55 



55 55 



16. 



55 



amouxianus. 



1 



55 



Ki-hsien, Chekiang. 



17. 



55 



raddeanus. 



1 



55 



Oussouri (Ussuri), Manchuria. 



The general areas from which the above specimens were 

 obtained are separable in much the same way as those from which 

 the Serows were collected, viz, :— 



(a) Chekiang Province. 



(b) Yichang, on the Yang-tze, Central Hupei. 



(c) N.E. Ssuchuan, S. Shensi, and N,E. Hupei. 



(d) Moupin and W. Ssuchuan. 



(e) Manchuria (Northern and Western). 



Besides these areas, Gorals are also to be found in Chihli and 

 North Shansi on the Mongolian frontier, in neither of which nor 

 in Manchuria are Serows known to occur. 



It will be seen that by far the largest number (15) of the 

 specimens in the collection come from Chen-kou-ting in N.E. 

 Ssuchuan. A careful examination showed that they could not be 

 separated one from the other — at least, on the evidence of their 

 skulls. As regards the coloration, which, as with the Serows, 

 seems to have been one of the chief points in Heude's classi- 

 fication, it must be noted that there is considerable seasonal 

 variation in the pelts of Gorals. I could not get hold of the skins 

 of Heude's specimens, however, so am not in a position to say 

 definitely whether he did or did not fall into the mistake of con- 

 sidering seasonal differences as specific ones, but an examination 

 of the skulls themselves and also his coloured plates, together 

 with my own experience in the field regarding the extreme 

 variability of Gorals' pelts during the seasons, lead me to suspect 

 that he did. 



f By Heude this genus was named Kemas. 



