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that it is being rolled rapidly on wheels. It is said to have the habit 
of depositing its dung in some particular spot, like the Khinoceros. I 
think this is true, in the neighbourhood of their lairs at all events. 
Ihave found the lair of a Serow with a very large accumulation of 
droppings heaped vp about 10 yards away from it, with a well beaten 
track from the Jair to the heap. 
The most remarkable thing I have noticed in connection with 
these animals is the quite extraordinary roar which they can emit when 
wounded, or possibly when angry. When hunting near Khao Kion, 
west of Potaram, in Muang Ratburi, one of my beaters shot a nearly 
fullgrown male Serow. It was so badly wounded as to be unable to 
move, and died in a few minutes. After being hit it emitted two or 
three Jong roars which conveyed a great volume of sound and quite an 
appalling idea of ferocity and rage; so much so that until I actually 
saw the animal I could not believe such a noise could be made by a 
Serow, and thought that the shot must have wounded a tiger. I was 
less than two hundred yards from it at the time and went at once in 
the direction of the sound; it was dead when I reached it. A native 
of the district who was standing near me when it roared assured me, 
without hesitation, that the noise was made by a Serow, so presumably 
he had heard it on previous occasions. The author of the article on 
Serow in the Badminton Library mentions ‘‘the discordant scream 
‘of the Serow heard after dark.” Colonel Kinloch quoted by BlantordL 
says, “when disturbed the Serow utters a singular sound between 
“a snort and a screaming whistle, and | have heard them screaming 
“loudly when they had apparently not been alarmed.” | 
The Serow is accounted by natives, and | believe generally. a 
somewhat difficult animal to bag. In some places that I know of the 
natives have given up hunting it as they find it so hard to kill. It 
is a common tale that when wounded it licks the wound which at once 
heals, even if it is a broken leg! 
I should say from what I know of hunting them near Koh Hlak 
that they were not difficult to bag in that neighbourhood, the Iills 
they frequent there being small so that the animals can easily be 
driven tiom one te another, an! shots thus obtained at short range, 
From the experiences of Mr. Butler and Dr. Smith, it also seems to be 
fairly easy to :talk them there wien they are feeding at the base 
o: the hill. On larger hills it needs a certain amount of knowledge 
