The Serow 



which generally renders pursuit out of the question. 

 Occasionally the alarm-scream is uttered without any 

 apparent cause. When wounded and charging, the 

 eyes display a peculiar red gleam, which gives an 

 almost fiendish appearance to the animal. 



Some difference of opinion exists in regard to the 

 time when the does give birth to their progeny, 

 Brian Hodgson stating that this takes place in Sep- 

 tember or October, after a gestation of eight months, 

 whereas Leith-Adams gives the time as May or June. 

 Apparently a single kid is produced at a birth. 



The Malay serow, although described by Mr. 

 A. L. Butler in the Zoological Society's Proceedings tor 

 1900 as a distinct species, is best regarded as the 

 melanistic phase of the ordinary species under the name 

 of N. sumatrensis swettenhami. Its general colour is 

 black ; the back being strongly and the sides slightly 

 grizzled with grey, while the bases of the hairs are 

 whitish. The lips are greyish white ; the hind part of 

 the upper ones, a patch on each side of the lower jaw, 

 and another on the throat being rust)^ red. The ears 

 are black, tinged with rusty at their bases, and lined and 

 edged with greyish -white hairs. The mane is black 

 with some whitish hairs on the fore portion of the neck 

 and reddish ones near the withers. The head, except 

 the parts mentioned, is black, as are the neck, under- 

 parts, tail, and legs, except the inside of the thighs, 

 which is rufous. 



The white-maned serow {Nemorhadus argyrocht£tes) 

 inhabiting the mountains of North-Western China, of 

 which a figure will be found in the Zoological Society's 

 Proceedings for 1 906, may perhaps be considered merely 

 as another local phase or race of A^ sumatrensis. 



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