Identifier: journalofbombayn221913bomb (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ey haveoften been referred to the same genus even by experienced zoolo-gists, they differ nevertheless profoundly in the structure of theskull. The skulls of Gorals approximate those of Takins in severalparticulars, and suggest a kinship between these two animals whichno one would suspect from an examination of living specimens.The skulls of Serows, on the contrary, are very distinct from thoseof the other genera. Since, however, I am not now concernedwith Takins, I will confine my remarks to the main differencesbetween Gorals and Serows. By their cranial characters they maybe briefly distinguished as follows:— (a) Maxillae in contact with the nasals for along distance in front of the lacrymalbone; lacrymals with a large pit likedepression ; nasals forming a transverseor slightly arched suture with the fron-tals; upper rim of orbits not at all prominent Capricornis. (h) Maxillae separated from nasals by a nar-row fissure and only a very short areaof the lacrymal touching the nasals;
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THE SERO WS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 297 laciymals without ixwj deep pit; nasalsforming an angular union with thefrontals ; upper rim of orbits prominent. Ncemorhedus.Although the above mentioned cranial differences are verymarked, and do not suggest close relationship between Gorals andSerows, they are nevertheless to a certain extent bridged over inthe skull of the small thick coated Japanese Serow formerly calledCapricornis crispus, but more recently separated as a distinct genusGapricornuhis. Further evidence that CaiJricornulus crisims isrelated to the Gorals is furnished by the structure of the footglands, which resemble those of Gorals, as I have shown in a paperon the cutaneous glands of Ruminants (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910,pp. 853-855). Another point of interest about these glands is their close resem-blance to those found in the feet of sheep, both wild and domesti-cated. These glands open by a small orifice in the front of thepastern, above the hoof, and each consis

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