Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 19:65.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Mishmi Hills .

DISTRIBUTION: Sikkim and Mishmi Hills (NE India); Bhutan; N Burma; SE Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and Yunnan (China).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Rare as B. t. bedfordi, Indeterminate as B. t. tibetana.

SYNONYMS: bedfordi, mitchelli, sinensis, tibetana, whitei.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Neas and Hoffmann (1987, Mammalian Species, 277).