OF INDIAN BIG GAME 23 



presented by Mr. Hume to the Museum in 1891 the horn- 

 length is 20| inches. The record length is 25 inches. 



46. 12. 10. 31. 44. Immature frontlet and horns. Mishmi 

 Hills ; collected by Mr. Needham. This specimen was 

 regarded by Mr. Hume as a female. 



THE SEROW, OR SARAO. 



CAPEICORNIS SUMA.TRENSIS. 



Antilope sumatraensis, Bechstein, Ubersicht vierfuss. Thiere, vol. i, 



p. 98, 1799. 



Antilope sumatrensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 354, 1801. 

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) sumatrensis, Hamilton Smith, in Griffith's 



Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 277, vol. v, p. 352, 1827. 

 Naemorhsedus sumatrensis, Hamilton Smith, Jar dine' s Nat. Libr., 



Mamm, vol. iv, p. 97, 1836. 

 Nemorhsedus sumatrensis, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, 



p. 272, 1846 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 314 ; 



Lydekker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 139, 1907 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 345, 1910. 

 Capricornis sumatrensis, Ogilby, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Gray, 



List Mamm. Brit. Mus. pp. xxvi and 166, 1843. 

 Capricornis sumatraensis, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 176. 



The identification of the Indian and Burmese serows with 

 the Sumatran species was suggested by the present writer in 

 1900, this view being provisionally adopted (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1908, p. 175) but subsequently abandoned (Ibid, 1910, p. 855) 

 by Mr. Pocock. 



A. Himalayan, or Nepal, Serow. 

 Caprieornis sumatrensis bubalinus. 



Antilope thar, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, vol. iii, p. 324, 1831, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 105. 



Antilope bubalina, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 12. 

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) thar, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 86. 

 Capricornis thar, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138; Pocock, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. i, p. 187, 1908, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1910, p. 855. 

 Capricornis bubalina, Gray, List., Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 166, 1843, 



Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. Ill, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 20, 1872. 

 Nemorhaedus bubalinus, Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamm. 



p. 513, 1891. 



