MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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the top of a rock with forelegs astraddle and head held low. It is very diflRcult 

 to distinguish the sexes at a distance. Their movements very much belie their 

 appearance ; they are exceedingly active animals, not only amongst rock, but 

 also on the flat. When distiubed they usually dash off down hill, with a deep 

 hissing snort or two. into thick cover, and as a rule they circle round any, reas- 

 cend the hill behmd the intruder, posting themselves on some coign of vantage, 

 from the safety of which they can watch the hunter tracking them. Before I 

 knew of this dodge I often tried to drive them without success, having one 

 several times in a beat, but never succeeded in getting it to cross the guns. 



In stormy and wet weather ihey are very restless at night, and call to one 

 another a good deal. Their call is a whistling scream. The female usually brings 

 forth one kid at a birth and sometimes two, about the end of September, and 

 the kid runs with its mother for a year. On two occasions I have seen a mother 

 with a very young brown coloured kid and a half grown kid in attendance. 

 The period of gestation is about seven months. 



A sure find for Serow is the gorge of the Pyoung (Goung) stream, a mile below 

 the now abandoned military station of Bernardmyo, in the Ruby mines district. 



H. SHAW DUNN. 



Annanhill, Kilmarnock. 



(The above appeand in the " Field " of 30th January 1909.) 



No. v.— NOTE ON A YOUNG TIBETAN GAZELLE. 



I am sending you a photograph of a young male Tibetan gazelle {Gazella 

 picticaudata). I have often noticed that sometimes the white round the tail of 



