. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ey haveoften been referred to the same genus even by experienced zoolo-gists, they differ nevertheless profoundly in the structure of theskull. The skulls of Gorals approximate those of Takins in severalparticulars, and suggest a kinship between these two animals whichno one would suspect from an examination of living skulls of Serows, on the contrary, are very distinct from thoseof the other genera. Since, however, I am not now concernedwith Takins, I will confine my remarks to the main differencesbetween Gorals and Serows. By th
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ey haveoften been referred to the same genus even by experienced zoolo-gists, they differ nevertheless profoundly in the structure of theskull. The skulls of Gorals approximate those of Takins in severalparticulars, and suggest a kinship between these two animals whichno one would suspect from an examination of living skulls of Serows, on the contrary, are very distinct from thoseof the other genera. Since, however, I am not now concernedwith Takins, I will confine my remarks to the main differencesbetween Gorals and Serows. By their cranial characters they maybe briefly distinguished as follows:— (a) Maxillae in contact with the nasals for along distance in front of the lacrymalbone; lacrymals with a large pit likedepression ; nasals forming a transverseor slightly arched suture with the fron-tals; upper rim of orbits not at all prominent Capricornis. (h) Maxillae separated from nasals by a nar-row fissure and only a very short areaof the lacrymal touching the nasals;. THE SERO WS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 297 laciymals without ixwj deep pit; nasalsforming an angular union with thefrontals ; upper rim of orbits prominent. the above mentioned cranial differences are verymarked, and do not suggest close relationship between Gorals andSerows, they are nevertheless to a certain extent bridged over inthe skull of the small thick coated Japanese Serow formerly calledCapricornis crispus, but more recently separated as a distinct genusGapricornuhis. Further evidence that CaiJricornulus crisims isrelated to the Gorals is furnished by the structure of the footglands, which resemble those of Gorals, as I have shown in a paperon the cutaneous glands of Ruminants (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910,pp. 853-855). Another point of interest about these glands is their close resem-blance to those found in the feet of sheep, both wild and domesti-cated. These glands open by a small orifice in the fr
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