. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . eckled with black; forehead and nose darker, cheeks paler;chin, lower side of jaws and throat patch generally yellower thanin N. goral. A black spinal stripe extending from the head tothe root of the tail but tapering away and almost evanescent onthe crovip. Tail black above. A dark, often ill defined striperunning up the back of the thigh from the hock. Legs beloAVknees and hocks golden brown, generally with a median blackstripe. Belly and inside of thigh greyish yellow. Distribution.—Nepal and Sikhim. Of this Goral there are in the British Mu
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . eckled with black; forehead and nose darker, cheeks paler;chin, lower side of jaws and throat patch generally yellower thanin N. goral. A black spinal stripe extending from the head tothe root of the tail but tapering away and almost evanescent onthe crovip. Tail black above. A dark, often ill defined striperunning up the back of the thigh from the hock. Legs beloAVknees and hocks golden brown, generally with a median blackstripe. Belly and inside of thigh greyish yellow. Distribution.—Nepal and Sikhim. Of this Goral there are in the British Museum complete skinsobtained by Hodgson in Nepal and one, the type, shot by Blanfordin Sikhim. The Burmese griseus, Milne-edwards. Antilope (Ncemorhedus) griseus A. M. Edwards, Nouv. Arch. , Bull, p. 93. ; id. Rech. Mamm. I, p. 361, pi. 71, fig. 2-2a, , fig. 1, 1874. ? Antilope (Nemorhcedus) cinerea, A. M, Edwards, Rech. 362, pi. 70, pi. 71, fig. 1, pi. 72, fig. 2, 1874. omb ay ISIat .Hi st .S o c. / L 1 clei et Ctoromjo litK GORALS FROM INDIA AND BURMA . LlTeTnorKaedus cinereus. :\ ^lerriorl-iasciiis goral. THE SERO WS, GORALS AND TA£IJ\S OF BRITISH INDIA. 31& Kemas henry anus, Henry, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, p. 93. Vrotragus evansi, Lydekker, Zoologist (4), IX, p, 83, 1905; Game Animals of India, etc., p. 153, 1907; Evans, Soc. 1905, p. 311. Nem(rrhcedus griseus, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, pp. 199-202. Distinguishable from the two Himalayan forms above describedby two main characters ; the skin of the tail is about five incheslong in the adult and the black stripe on the foreleg instead ofpassing over the knee and running down the middle line of thecannon bone to the fetlock, turns aside at the knee and usuallypasses down the outer side of the cannon bone to the false hoofand spreads thence on to the back of the fetlock and pastern. The colour varies considerably in
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