454 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
looked back and up towards me. He was not more than eighty or 
ninety yards below. I leaned against the rock, my shikar dress blending 
with the dark grey of the stone and burnt-up grass so completely as to 
deceive even my lynx-eyed prey. Long, long he looked, till my very 
knees trembled with anxiety. At last he turned his head, but I knew 
better than to move, being sure he would have another look. He did so 
and it proved to be his last, for, when he again turned his head away, I 
quietly subsided, and in another moment the buck died on his rocky 
bed.” 
There is an illustration by Wolf of the animal in Colonel Walter 
Campbell’s ‘My Indian Journal.’ 
The female has only two mammee, and usually produces two young at 
a time, 
THE GOAT ANTELOPES, OR CAPRICORNS. 
These animals form the link between the goats and the antelopes ; 
their general characteristics are short, conical horns, ringed at the base, 
upright and curving backwards, and of nearly equal size in both sexes. 
The body is heavier than is usual amongst antelopes ; the feet are large, 
and have false hoofs. 
GENUS NEMORHGDUS. 
‘‘ Horns in both sexes round, black and ringed ; a small muffle ; eye- 
pits wanting or small; large feet-pits in all feet; no inguinal pits nor 
calcic tufts ; tails short, hairy ; four mamme ” (/erdon). 
No. 451. NEMORHGDUS BUBALINA. 
The Serow, or Forest Goat (Jerdon’s No. 230). 
Native Names.—Servow, or Serowa, Pahari; Eimu, on the Sutlej ; 
Ramu, Halj, Salabhir, Kashmiri; Vga, Leesaws of the Sanda valley ; 
FPaypa, of the Shans; Shan/i, Chinese of the Burmo-Chinese frontier. 
Hasitat.—The whole of the wooded ranges of the Himalayas from 
Kashmir down past Sikim on to the ranges dividing China from 
Burmah. 
DESCRIPTION.—I have before me several descriptions of this animal, 
of which I have little personal knowledge. The best of all is that of 
Colonel Kinloch, which has been, to some extent, quoted by Professor 
Garrod in Cassell’s Natural History. I give it 77 extenso :— 
‘““The serow is an ungainly-looking animal, combining the characte- 
ristics of the cow, the donkey, the pig, and the goat! It is a large and 
