638 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



"The type-locality is the mountains of Chekiang, hence four speci- 

 mens in the collection from Tunglu and Mokanshan of that province 

 may be taken as typical. I can find no differences of moment that 

 would distinguish these from a series of skins and skulls from Fukien 

 and eastern Szechwan." (G. M. Allen, 1930a, p. 4.) 



"This subspecies is distributed throughout the mountainous dis- 

 tricts of Southeastern China. It may be found in the T'ien T'ai 

 Shan, Chekiang. About five years ago one was secured from Pai Mai 

 Shan, south of Wu-hu. The present specimen came probably from 

 Huang Shan, which is in Southern [part] of Anhuei." (Ho, 1935, p. 

 176.) 



Arthur de C. Sowerby writes (in litt., April 24, 1937) as follows: 

 "The white-maned serow, properly speaking, is confined to East 

 China south of the mouth of the Yangtze River, that is to say, to 

 the highest mountains of Chekiang, Fukien, Southern Anhuei and 

 Kiangsi." He adds, concerning the five Chinese forms of Serows 

 that he recognizes: "All of these are persistently hunted by the 

 natives for medicinal purposes, the horns, skins and other parts 

 being believed by the Chinese to have great healing virtue. The 

 serows haunt high rocky heavily wooded ridges .... Wherever 

 they exist the natives keep noose-traps set constantly along the 

 paths used by these animals, with the result that in the aggregate 

 considerable numbers are caught annually, and nowhere are serows 

 at all plentiful. They are doomed to extinction in the not very 

 distant future unless protected in some way." 



Malayan Serow 



CAPRICORNIS SUMATRAENSIS SWETTENHAMI (Butler) 



Nemorhaedus swettenhami Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1900, p. 675, 



1900. ("Larut Hills, Perak," Malay Peninsula.) 

 SYNONYM?: Capricornis sumatraensis robinsoni Pocock (1908). 

 FIGS.: Sketch, April 26, 1899, p. 22, fig.; Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1908, p. 186, 



fig. 35 (robinsoni) . 



The Malayan Serow is "much less numerous than formerly" (F. N. 

 Chasen, in litt., May 5, 1937) and is "on the danger list despite 

 protection" (Comyn-Platt, 19376, p. 48) . 



Butler (1900, pp. 675-676) gives the following description of the 

 female type: "General colour black, the back strongly and the sides 

 slightly grizzled with grey .... Along the lips whitish grey; the 

 posterior portion of the upper lips, a patch on each side of the lower 

 jaw and one on the throat rusty red. . . . Mane black, mixed with 

 whitish . . . and with reddish hairs .... Insides of the thighs 

 rusty red. Remainder of head, neck, chest, belly, and legs black. 

 Tail black. 



