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Nemorhaedus argvrochfetes. Lydekl-er, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. u, 

 p. 329, pi. viii, ibifJ. 1908, p. 940; Lyon, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 

 Q. 50, p. 133, 1907. 



Capricornis suinatraensis argyrochaetes, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, 

 pp. 175, 185. 



White-maned Serow. 

 Typical locality Che-Kiang, Yang-tsi Valley, Central China. 

 A large species, stated to stand 44 inches at shoulder,* 



Fig, 50.— Head of ^VHITE-MA^-ED Serow [Capricornis 



argyrochivtes), Kan-su. 



From a specimen in the collection of ilr. G. Fenwick Owen. 



and allied in its type of colouring to C. sumatreoisis suma- 

 trensis and C. s.jamrachi, but with a larger and almost wholly 

 greyish white mane, and the thighs and legs briglit ferruginous 

 red. Skull (fig. 51) long and narrow, with unusually long 

 and narrow nasals: the basal length and the nasal length 

 exceeding the corresponding dimensions in a skull of 

 C. s. milne-edicardsi, whereas the width of the nasals is less. 

 * The mounted specimen (not fully adult) stands about 40 inches. 



