[Native name in Mishmi.] A horned ruminant (Budorcas taxicolor) of southeastern Tibet on the northern frontier of Assam.
1850. B. H. Hodgkin, in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XIX. 65. The large, massive and remarkable animal, denominated Tákin by the Mishmis, and Kin by the Khamtis, is one of the group of Bovine Antelopes.
1893. Lydekker, Horns & Hoofs, iv. 142. No English sportsman has ever shot a takin.
1909. Daily Chron., 23 June, 5/5. The Zoological Society has just received … a fine young example of the takin, which, next to the okapi, is the rarest and least known of the ruminants…. Takins are heavily built and powerful animals, an adult male standing three and a half feet high at the shoulder.
