. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . , thepresence of glands in the feet, and of four teats in thefemale, as well as in the development of horns in bothsexes, gorals resemble serows ; the absence of face-glands being the chief reason for referring them to aseparate group. Very generally the tail is comparativelyshort (about 4 inches in the Himalayan species),but it attains a considerable length in the long-tailedgoral {U. caudatus). As a rule, gorals are smaller thanserows, but there i
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . , thepresence of glands in the feet, and of four teats in thefemale, as well as in the development of horns in bothsexes, gorals resemble serows ; the absence of face-glands being the chief reason for referring them to aseparate group. Very generally the tail is comparativelyshort (about 4 inches in the Himalayan species),but it attains a considerable length in the long-tailedgoral {U. caudatus). As a rule, gorals are smaller thanserows, but there is a species of the latter from Japan{Nemorhadus crisptis) not much larger than a goral. In all gorals the short black horns, which are nearlyas large in does as in bucks, are very similar to thoseof serows, being conical and slightly divergent, curving 148 The Himalayan Gorals evenly backwards, and marked for the greater part oftheir length by somewhat irregular, closely approximatedrings, or ridges, partially interrupted by longitudinalgroovings. The general form is also goat-like, withthe limbs strona; and stout. The hair is rather coarse. Fig. 24.—A Himalayan Goral, from a photograph by theDuchess of Bedford. and shaggy, with a certain amount of woolly under-fur at the roots, and generally shows a tendency todevelop into a slight crest along the back of the neckand at the bases of the horns. The animal here regarded as the typical Himalayangoral is rufous brown in colour, only slightly palerbelow than on the back, with the face somewhat lighterand more rufous, but darkening towards the horns ; 149 Game Animals of India, etc. and a white or whitish patch on the chin and the back, from nape to tail, runs a conspicuousblack streak ; the tail is wholly black above ; and thereis a blackish stripe down the tront of the legs, whichare elsewhere brown. In the Fauna of British India the late Dr. Blanfordmade no mention oi any colour-variation according toseason, age, o
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