. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . stricted the old name goral tothe brown one. That these two kinds of Goral exist is undeni-able, but Mr. Ljrdekkers selection of the technical names was mostunrortunate, because Hardwicke, the original describer of Antilopegoral, expressly stated that the animal to which he gave the name,a specimen living in the Barrackpore menagerie whither it hadoeen sent from Katmandu, was of a grey mouse-colour, theLacin diagnosis running corpore mpra colore murino canescente !Since it is quite impossible to believe that Hardwicke could haveapplied those ep
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . stricted the old name goral tothe brown one. That these two kinds of Goral exist is undeni-able, but Mr. Ljrdekkers selection of the technical names was mostunrortunate, because Hardwicke, the original describer of Antilopegoral, expressly stated that the animal to which he gave the name,a specimen living in the Barrackpore menagerie whither it hadoeen sent from Katmandu, was of a grey mouse-colour, theLacin diagnosis running corpore mpra colore murino canescente !Since it is quite impossible to believe that Hardwicke could haveapplied those epithets to an animal which was independentlydescribed by Hodgson as rusty and brown , by Blanford as brown, more or less rufous and by Mr. Lydekker as rufousbrown, there is no logical escape from the conclusion that grey goral is the same as Hardwickes goral andmust take the technical term goral, with hedfordi as itssynonym. Clearly, therefore, it was the brown Himalayan Goral thatrequired a new name and not the grey one. This name I. TRE SUMO WiS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 313 supplied in 1908, when I dedicated the species to Brian Hodgsonwho was the first to discover and misname it. The available evidence shows that the grey goral which rangesat least from Chamba to Nepal, is a more westerly form than the brown one which extends from Nepal to Sikhim. They mayprove to be merelj^ local races of one species; but since we have noactual proof that they intergrade even in Nepal where both typesoccur, it is better perhaps to regard them as distinct species. Atthe same time it cannot be claimed that the differences betweenthem have the same value as the differences which distinguishedthe Burmese Goral from both of them. Ncemorhedus goral, Hardwicke. Antilope qoral, Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. Zool. XIV, p. 518., , 1825; H. Smith, (Iriffiths An. Kingdom IV, p. 279, 1827;Jardine, Nat. Library, Mammalia IV, p. 98, 1836. Urotragus bedfordi, Lydekker, Zoologist 1
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