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lie said that he had canght it at high elevation below Riehi-la, 10.000 

 feet. 1 doubt wlietlier it occurs at this elevation. I did not take the 

 animal from the man as I was going away for a few days but I sent 

 him to Mr. W. Helps of Nedeem, JJooars, who bought it and I believe 

 presented it to the Zoological Garden in Calcutta. Blanford in the 

 Fauna of British India records it fi'om Burma and the Malayan coun- 

 tries extending north to Chittagong, Tipperah and the Khasi hills. 



Nemorhmdus bnbaliims, Hodgson, var : vel. N. snmatrensis, Shaw. 

 N. suvintre7isis is described as diffei'ing from N. bnbalinns in the legs 

 being rufous not Avhite or grey near the feet. I have never seen a 

 .specimen of N. sumatrensis frotu its recorded locality but I have seen 

 several skins and live serow in the Darjeeling district. The live ones 

 1 have come across at low elevation from 1,200 feet up to 4,000 feet and 

 all that I have noticed had the legs rufous. In March or April, 1898, 

 Mr. J. R Hallifax and I were out shooting together on Punkabaree at 

 about 1,200 to 2,000 feet elevation and he then shot a fine male wiiich 

 had the upper parts black turnins,' to rufous on the sides and with the 

 legs rufous only mixed with a few white hairs near the feet. The skull 

 of this animal measured as under : — 



Exti-eme length from occipital condyles to end of inches, 

 preniaxillary bone (over carves) ... ... 14f 



Lentitli from base of horns to end of premaxillary 



bone ... ... ... ... 9|- 



Breadth of zygomatic aiches ... ... 4| 



Length of horns ... ... ... 9^ 



Spread between tips ... ... ...' 4 



Girth round base ... ... ... 6| 



Mr. H. L. Grossman and Mr. W. Ager to whom I wrote askinsr 

 about the colour of the legs of the animals shot by them, tell me 

 that they have shot both forms, the led- and the white-legged, but 

 Mr Grossman who has kept his skins cannot say whether he shot the 

 white ones at the higher elevations or not. This latter gentleman says 

 that he has shot serow as low as 1,000 feet on the Mechi river. They 

 occur in the valley of the Balasun, Rakti, Rhoni, and Pugo-Ghu to my 

 own knowledge. In the latter river I have not seen their tracks lower 

 than 2,500 feet; but on the Rakti I have seen the live animal at 1,200 

 feet. Mr. Grossman has shot sorow at 6,000 feet also and I believe that 

 tliey are found much higher. 



Mr. Hallifax and I have shot gooral, {Gemas goral) in the same 

 localities down to 1,000 feet in the precipitous cliffs of the Rakti, they 

 occur on the Mechi river right down to the cliffs bordering the Terai. 

 In the low valleys in the interior wherever sufficiently steep gi'ound is 



