d
at Shuaygheen, on the Sitang river, in Burmah, a female of this
species was brought alive to Major Berdmore by some Burmans, who had
caught it in the river, by which it had probably been washed down
from the Karanee mountains. He adds that even in its exhausted and
dying state it was exceedingly savage, butting at every one who
approached it.

SIZE.--Height, about 3 feet, or an inch or two over; length, about
5 to 5-1/2 feet; weight, about 200 lbs.; horns, about a foot long
as an average, varying from 9 to 14 inches.

The female usually produces one kid in the autumn, about September
or October, and the period of gestation is about seven months.

NO. 452. NEMORHOEDUS RUBIDA _vel_ SUMATRENSIS.
_The Arakanese Capricorn_.

NATIVE NAME.--_Tan-Kseik_, Arakanese.

HABITAT.--Arakan, through Pegu to (according to Blyth) the extremity
of the Malayan peninsula, and occurs in Siam and Formosa, and also
in Sumatra. Has been shot near Shillong in Assam.

DESCRIPTION.--Blyth is of opinion ('Cat. Mam. British Burmah,' 'J.
A. S. B.' 1875) that his _N. rubida_ is identical with _Sumatrensis_
and _Swinhoei_, and he could detect no difference in their skulls
and skins. I therefore take the following description of
_Capricornis Swinhoei_ from the 'P. Z. S.' 1862, page 263, where it
is also figured, plate xxxv.:--

"The fur harsh and crisp, brown, with a narrow streak down the back
of the neck; a spot on the knee and the front of the fore-legs below
the knee black; the hind-legs are bay; the sides of the chin pale
yellowish; the under-side of the neck yellow bay, this colour being
separated from the darker colour of the upper part of the neck by
a ridge of longer, more rigid hairs; the ears are long, brown, paler
internally; the horns are short and conical; the skull has a deep
and wide concavity in front of the orbits, and a keeled ridge on the
cheek."

Blyth says: "This species varies much in colour from red to black,
and the black sometimes with a white nape, or the hairs of the nape
may be white at the base only." Lieut. Bevan described one ('P. Z.
S.' 1866) shot on the Zwagaben mountain, near Moulmein, as being of
a mingled black and ferruginous colour.

NO. 453. NEMORHOEDUS EDWARDSII.
_The Thibetan Capricorn_.

HABITAT.--Thibet.

DESCRIPTION.--This differs from the Indian _N. bubalina_ by the
uniform blackish brown of the upper parts tending to ferruginous on
the thighs, and the red colour in place of the grey o