The Serow 



with the Himalayan race, although it inhabits somewhat 

 lower elevations. The red colouring of the limbs 

 indicates that it is a semi-melano as compared with the 

 Himalayan race ; red or tan on the limbs and under- 

 parts in association with black above beine;, as Mr. R. 

 I. Pocock has shown in the case of black-and-tan do^s, 

 the first stage on the road to complete melanism. 



The Tibetan representative of the species (Nemo- 

 rh^dus sumatrensis milne-edwardsi)^ originally described 

 by the Abbe David from Moupin in Eastern Tibet, 

 but subsequently recorded by the late Dr. J. Anderson 

 from Yunnan, resembles the Sumatran race in the 

 rufous lower portion of the legs, but differs by the 

 uniformly brownish -black colour of the upper-parts. 

 There is also a woolly under-fur to the coat, which 

 appears to be generally wanting in the other races. Dr. 

 Anderson states that a horn of this serow is generally 

 an indispensable adjunct to the shoulder-bag or haver- 

 sack of every Kakhyen, Shan, and Chinese peasant of 

 Western Yunnan, from which it is suspended, and 

 serves the purpose of a drill in repairing harness, etc. 



Although often considered identical with the typical 

 form of the species, the Arakan serow {^Nemorlicedus 

 sumatrensis rubidus) appears entitled to be regarded as 

 a third local race, distinguished by the extremely red 

 tinge of the coat. It seems also to be unusually small, 

 but further information is needed. It was originally 

 described, as a distinct species, by Edward Blyth in 

 1863, under the name of Capricornis rubida^ in his 

 Catalogue of the Bengal Asiatic Society's Museum. 



Himalayan sportsmen may often be deceived as to 

 the nature of the game which they are pursuing owing 

 to the circumstance that the name used in one district 

 to denote a certain species is applied in another to a 

 totally different animal. An example of this confusion 

 occurs in the present case, where the serow of the 

 North-West Himalaya is termed tehr in Nepal, where 

 the animal to which that name is generally restricted in 



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