Game Animals of India, etc. 



recorded length of the horns of the typical Sumatran 

 serow. 



Serow are further characterised by the propor- 

 tionately large size of the head, the long mule-like 

 cars, and the short, thickly-haired tail. Face-glands, 

 opening by a small circular orifice below each eye, are 

 present ; and the muzzle is bare and moist, like that 

 of cattle. Glands are developed between the hoofs 

 of all four feet, but there are none in the groin. The 

 female is furnished with four teats. The upper cheek- 

 teeth are generally similar to those ot sheep and goats. 

 The coarse and rather thin hair on the head and body 

 is of moderate length, but developed so as to form 

 a rather long mane running from the nape of the neck 

 to the withers, which, in some instances at any rate, is 

 white.^ Since the colour of the Himalayan race of 

 the species is described at some length, it will suffice 

 to say that the typical Sumatran, or eastern, repre- 

 sentative of the species {Nemorhcedus bubalimts typicus) 

 is specially characterised by the lower part of the legs 

 being rufous, instead of white or grey, as well as by 

 the more rufous tinge ot the hair generally. iVpparently 

 also the size is not equal to that of the largest specimens 

 of the Himalayan race, although small examples of the 

 latter do not exceed the present race in this respect. 



Probably there is a complete transition from one 

 race to the other, since a specimen was killed by 

 General A. A, Kinloch near Darjiling, which in point of 

 colour was intermediate between the two. Apparently 

 the geographical range of the typical race extends from 

 Sumatra through the elevated tracts of Siam, Burma, and 

 Assam, to the Eastern Himalaya. It is commonly called 

 the Burmese serow, but as it is typically trom Sumatra 

 it is better indicated by the name of that island, if indeed 

 the Sumatran and Burmese animals are inseparable. 



In habits the Sumatran serow is doubtless identical 



' See plate ii. of vol. xxii. of Jardine's Naturalists' Library, " Ruminants," 

 pt. 2. 



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