Game Animals of India, etc. 



been concealed, and with one butt sent the unfortunate 

 man rolling down the hillside, without giving the chance 



ot a tair shot to the sportsman 

 looking on. This instance 

 shows that although serow are 

 frequently seen alone, they may 

 also be found in pairs. Very 

 little difference in general ap- 

 pearance distinguishes the does 

 from the bucks ; and as the 

 tormer have nearly as large 

 horns as the latter, they are 

 legitimate game to the sports- 

 man. When serow cannot be 

 stalked on their feeding-grounds, 

 they may sometimes be induced 

 to break covert by driving, al- 

 though not unfrequently the 

 difficult nature of the country 

 renders this method impractic- 

 able. When alarmed, serow 

 give utterance to sharp, shrill 

 screams, or shrieks, repeated at 

 short and regular intervals, and 

 much resembling the cries of 

 goral. When first heard, they 

 are decidedly alarming. Many 

 ruminants when suddenly 

 surprised seem to " lose their 

 heads " for a few seconds, and 

 in the serow this momentary 

 bewilderment is especially 

 Himalayan Serow, from a noticcable, the animal Standing 

 specimen in the possession of gtock-still, as if dazed, and this, 



Mr. A. O. Hume. . ' . ' . . ' 



too, in some instances after it 

 has been fired at. When, however, the animal has got 

 over its bewilderment it starts off with a rush head- 

 long down the precipitous mountain-side in a manner 



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Fig. 23. — Skull and Horns of the 



