188 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



south-eastern and eastern Asia, extending from the Himalaya 

 to the mountains of Sze-chuan, Kan-su, and other parts of 

 China, Tonkin, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Japan, and Formosa. 



1. Subgenus CAPRICORNIS. 



Large serows, with a heavy mane on neck, big ears, 

 comparatively sparse coat, and a moderately bushy tail. 



I. CAPEICOEXIS SUMATRENSIS. 



Antilope sumatraensis, Bechstein, tlbersicht vierfilss. Thieve, vol. i, 



p. 98, 1799. 

 Antilope snmatrensis, Shaiv, Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 354, 1801. 

 Antilope (Neniorhedus) snmatrensis, H. Smith, Griffith's Anim. 



Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 277, vol. v, p. 352, 1827. 

 Nseniorhaedus sumatrensis, Jardine, Nat. Libr. Mamm. vol. iv, p. 97, 



1836. 



Antilope interscapularis, Lichtenstein, Berlin Mag. vol. vi, p. 165, 



1814. 

 Nemorhaedus sumatrensis, Cantor, Joiirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, 



p. 272, 1846; Floiuer and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mas. B. Coll. 



Surg. pt. ii, p. 254, 1884 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Manun. 



p. 314 ; Lyclehker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 139, 1907, 



Proa. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 940; Ward, Eecords of Big Game, 



ed. 6, p. 345, 1910. 

 Capricornis sumatrensis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Gray, 



List Mamm. Brit. Mas. pp. xxvi and 166, 1843, Cat. XJngulata 



Brit. Mas. p. Ill, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 20, 1872, 



Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 91, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 241, 1862 ; Lydehker, Cat. Hume 



Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 23, 1913. 

 Austritragus sumatrensis, Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



vol. iv, p. 14, 1898. 

 Capricornis sumatraensis, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 176. 



Serow, or Sarao. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



The identification of the Indian and Burmese serows with 

 the Sumatran species, as local races, was suggested by the 

 present writer in 1900, this view being provisionally adopted 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908, p. 175), but subsequently abandoned 

 (Ibid. 1910, p. 855) by Pocock. 



The type species. — Size large, shoulder-height reaching 

 37 or 38 inches. Colour variable, ranging from wholly black 

 except for some grey in the mane, to wdiolly rufous, but in 



