The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . nd of four teats to the udder of the female, as well as in thedevelopment of horns in both sexes, the gorals resemble the serows ; theabsence of face-glands being the chief reason for referring them to aseparate group. Very generally the tail is comparatively short (about4 inches in the Himalayan species), but it attains a considerable length inthe long-tailed goral [U. caudatus). As a rule, the gorals are smalleranimals than the serows, but there is a species of the latter from Japan{Nemorha\ius crispiii) which is no larger than a goral. The
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . nd of four teats to the udder of the female, as well as in thedevelopment of horns in both sexes, the gorals resemble the serows ; theabsence of face-glands being the chief reason for referring them to aseparate group. Very generally the tail is comparatively short (about4 inches in the Himalayan species), but it attains a considerable length inthe long-tailed goral [U. caudatus). As a rule, the gorals are smalleranimals than the serows, but there is a species of the latter from Japan{Nemorha\ius crispiii) which is no larger than a goral. The Himalayan Goral 137 In all the gorals the short and insignificant-looking black horns, whichare nearly as large in the does as in the bucks, are very similar to those ofthe serows, being conical and but slightly divergent, curving evenly back-wards, and marked for the greater part of their length by somewhatirregular, closely approximated rings, or ridges, which are partiallyinterrupted by longitudinal groovings. The general form of the animal is. Fig. 23.—Fc photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. also goat-like, with the limbs strong and stout. The hair, too, is rathercoarse and shaggy, with a certain amount of woolly under-fur at the roots,and generally showing a tendency to develop into a slight crest along theback of the neck and at the bases of the horns. The Himalayan species stands from 26 to 28 inches in height at thewithers, and weighs from about 58 to 63 lbs. As already said, it hasa comparatively short tail. Its general colour is brown, showing a more orless marked individual tendency either to rufous or greyish, and with the 138 Great and Small Game of India, etc. under-parts but slightly paler than the back. The face is somewhat palerand more distinctly rufous than the back, but becomes darker nearer thehorns ; the throat is white ; a black line runs down the front of each leg,and another from the nape of the neck along the back to the tail, whichis likewise blac
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