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the mountains of Djambi, Toba, Karo, Barisan, Singkel, Groot 

 Atjeh, Tapanoeli, Pesagi, and Way Paja. It is nominally protected 

 by law, but there is a certain amount of poaching both by natives 

 and by Europeans, and reserves are essential for the preservation of 

 the species. It is hunted with dogs and snares. The horns, hide, and 

 flesh are prized, and the animals are sometimes offered for sale. The 

 nature of the Serow's habitat gives it some protection from man, 

 and the Tiger is said not to occur there. The Serow 's shyness is 

 such that it seems to disappear from some areas because of the estab- 

 lishment of cultivation in the vicinity. 



White-maned Serow 



CAPRICORNIS SUMATRAENSIS ARGYROCHAETES Heude 



Capricornis argyrochaetes Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, vol. 2, 

 p. 4, footnote, 1888. ("Montagnes du Tche-Kiang," China; type locality 

 later restricted by Heude (1894, p. 228) to "hautes montagnes de la sous- 

 prefecture de Tchou-ki, province de Tche-kiang.") 



FIGS.: Heude, 1894, pi. 31, figs. 1-4, 7, 8, 10, II. 1 



This Serow of southeastern China is considered in danger of 

 extinction. 



Size large 2 ; face and ears dusky rufous ; a white stripe at the 

 angle of the mouth and a white patch on the throat ; space between 

 the maxillaries brownish; a long, thick mane, entirely dirty white, 

 extending to the middle of the chest; a straight dorsal stripe and the 

 short tail blackish brown; sides and back with mixed black and 

 dirty white hairs; thighs and shoulders black; legs marked with 

 brown and light rufous. Horns black, with straight, deep cancella- 

 tions ; diverging at first, but slightly converging at the tips. (Heude, 

 1894, pp. 228-229.) Length of horn about 9 inches (Ward, 1935, p. 

 254). 



Heude's description, quoted above, is of the female type. An aber- 

 rant specimen is noted by G. M. Allen (1930a, p. 4) : "One of the 

 Chekiang skins has the body, legs, and feet deep black throughout." 



Owing to the state of confusion that prevails in the taxonomy of 

 the genus Capricornis, the distribution as well as the characters of 

 C. s. argyrochaetes can be stated only provisionally. The name will 

 be here restricted to the animal occurring in the mountainous areas 

 of southeastern China, west as far as eastern Szechwan. More or 

 less white-maned individuals (presumably of the subspecies milne- 

 edwardsii) are found also in the mountains of western Szechwan 

 and Kansu. 



1 It is doubtful whether various other published illustrations of "argyrochaetes" 

 are actually of the subspecies of southeastern China. 



2 A related form of western China stands about 44 inches at the shoulder. 



