Game Animals of India, etc. 



This serow was described by Blyth under the name of 

 Capricornis rubida, from a specimen obtained in the 

 hill -ranges of Aracan, on the sea -board of Upper 

 Burma. It was subsequently regarded by Dr. Blan- 

 ford as inseparable from the ordinary Burmese serow 

 {Nemorhadus sumatrensis)^ of which 1 suggested that 

 it might be a local race. The new specimen, which 

 is almost entirely of a foxy-red colour, with a little 

 brownish on the backs of the ears, and becoming rather 

 paler on the throat, was obtained by Mr. A. Sinclair 

 Thomson, of the Essex Regiment, near Mogaung, 

 nearly due north of Bhamo, on the eastern border of 

 the Singpho country. The occurrence of the red 

 serow in localities so distant as Aracan and Mogaung 

 indicates that its range extends right across that of the 

 ordinary serow, and suggests a colour -phase rather 

 than a local race. Indeed, in view of recent observa- 

 tions as to the red phase of the African tiger-cat being 

 merely the early stage of the dusky form of that species, 

 the suspicion arises that a similar change may take 

 place in the case of the serow. Accordingly, any 

 observations bearing on this point from sportsmen in 

 Burma will be of interest. 



R. LYDEKKER. 



Harpenden, 'July 1907. 



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