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Show 3 1 2 MAJOR G. H. EVANS ON THE | N o v . 14, the Barmans dare not venture into Chin-land, they could afford 110 definite information beyond that the Chins had told them that there were several of these animals on a certain high mountain now known as Mount Victoria. Since then several Coral have been shot there by policemen on outpost and others. During the season of 1896-97 I visited the Arakan Hill-tracts, which are merely a southern continuation of the Chin Hills into the Akyab district of Arakan. Here again I came on a skull and a skin (the latter in a very bad state of preservation) of this Coral. This animal, from the horns evidently a female, was shot in the hills at a place not very far distant, and local informants said that there were a fair number. Being unable to visit the place at that time, I told a friend of the ground, and asked him to find out if what I had heard was correct. He did so, and came across some six animals, of which he shot a couple. One of these, owing to the ground, it was impossible to recover. I sent a skull for identification, and was informed that it was a Himalayan Coral. I was unacquainted with the Indian Goral, but from the descriptions in books I was not quite satisfied that it was the same animal. Later 011, while after Serow in the Shan range of hills to the east of the Irrawaddy, I was much surprised again to run across these animals. I was still more convinced that the beast was not the same as the Indian Goral, so much so, that I asked a friend to shoot an Indian Goral and send me a head and skin, which lie very kindly did. On comparison my suspicions were confirmed. I was then most desirous to procure a specimen for the British Museum, but luck was against me, as it was a long time before I ran across them again. x The following are the chief characteristics of these Goral : - General form.-Goat-like with sturdy limbs. Horns are present in both sexes : those of the female are shorter, thinner, and not so rough as those of the male. They are generally almost parallel, i. e. only slightly divergent, and have a slightly backward curve. The coat is moderately long, close, and the hair rather coarse ; there is generally a well-marked underfur. The mammse are four in number. General colour.- A dark, more or less rat-grey, with an admixture of longish, dark, rufous-tipped hairs running through the coat, but mostly on back and upper surface of body. I 11 an old buck the back, haunches, and upper portions of sides were dark pepper-and-salt or grizzled grey. I 11 a young specimen the colour was generally lighter. There is no distinct dorsal stripe : in a young animal a very faint but distinct brownish line was traceable, extending from the nape to the dock, and in the skin of a female also, when held in a good light, a darker brownish median line could be discerned. The colour fades gradually on the side to a dirty reddish white under the abdomen. The colour about the back of the neck is a lighter grey than that of the body, and the hair is longer. A distinct crest of longer hair of a blackish-brown colour extends from between horns to behind the |