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"Height at shoulder 36-J inches .... Length of horns 6 inches." 

 Other horns are recorded up to about 8 inches in length. 



Butler adds (p. 676) : "Although this Serow is so little known to 

 Europeans the horns are occasionally obtained from the Sakai tribes 

 of the hills .... It is found on the mountains of the Peninsula 

 from 2000 ft. to 4000 ft. altitude, and is said also to occur on various 

 isolated limestone hills of much lower elevation." 



"The black Wild Goat . . . inhabits the isolated patches of lime- 

 stone rocks which flank at intervals the main granite chain of the 

 Peninsula. Though apparently not rare in these places, it has never 

 been shot by any sportsman, and the only specimens I have seen 

 are skeletons and a head in the Perak Museum." (Ridley, 1895, p. 

 163.) 



"The kambing gurun is ... quite a common animal in suitable 

 localities throughout the Peninsula, though no more than one speci- 

 men has ever been shot by a European. ... It was not uncommon 

 on Bukit Besar .... By offering a liberal reward we managed to 

 persuade some of the Biserat natives to snare us two specimens." 

 (Robinson, in Bonhote, 1903, p. 41.) 



Hubback (1932, vol. 2, p. 214) gives the following information: 



"One witness . . . stated that serow (Kambing grun) were 

 getting ve*ry scarce [in Perlis] and considered that this was due to 

 the trapping of animals which were sold to shop-keepers in Kangar 

 who attempt to export them alive. This witness added 'The Kambing 

 grun almost always dies in captivity.' 



"The whole country might be looked upon as a Reserve for serow 

 . . . and I recommend that their shooting or trapping in the State 

 of Perlis should be entirely prohibited." 



Hubback also (p. 136) reports Serow on Gunong Sembilu, in the 

 proposed Gunong Tahan National Park. 



"All the forms are very local in their distribution and need foster- 

 ing" (F. N. Chasen, in litt., May 5, 1937) . 



"Many with whom I talked [in Malaya] . . . were insistent that 

 such animals as the . . . serow are to-day practically non-existent" 

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



It is quite possible that this subspecies ranges northward from 

 the Malay States into Peninsular Siam, but its limits in that direc- 

 tion have not been determined. Lydekker (1913c, vol. 1, p. 189) 

 refers to C. s. robinsoni (type locality Selangor) as perhaps insepar- 

 able from swettenhami. 



