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before. The tongue and the horns are used for medicinal purposes. 

 Certain Kha of the upper basin of Sekong use the hides for their 

 bucklers. The meat is excellent. Practically no destruction is carried 

 on; the species is well protected by its environment and by its 

 extreme shyness. 



Other Serows 



As far as information is obtainable, the remaining Serows of the 

 Asiatic mainland have maintained a more satisfactory status than 

 those discussed above. They include the following subspecies: 



C. s. milne-edwardsi David, of western China and eastern Tibet. 

 C. s. montinus G. M. Allen, of the Lichiang Range, Yunnan. 

 C. s. jamrachi Pocock, of the Darjeeling district, northern Bengal. 

 ? C. s. thar (Hodgson) , of Nepal. 

 C. s. rodoni Pocock, of Chamba, northern India. 

 C. s. humei Pocock, of Kashmir. 

 C. s. rubidus Blyth, of Burma. 

 C. s. annectens Kloss, of western Siam. 



Concerning the Formosan Serow (C. swirihoii Gray), we have no 

 recent information. 



Japanese Serow 



CAPRICORNIS CRISPUS (Temminck) 



Antilope crispa Temminck, Fauna Japonica, Mamm., p. 56, 1845. ("Nippon 

 (Hondo), Japan" (fide Lydekker, 1913c, vol. 1, p. 200).) 



SYNONYM?: Capricornis pryerianus Heude (1894). 



FIGS.: Temminck, 1845, pis. 18, 19; Heude, 1894, pi. 33, figs. 1-8 (pryerianus), 

 fig. 9 (crispiis) ; Cambridge Nat. Hist., vol. 10, Mammalia, p. 326, fig. 176, 

 1902. 



Some years ago the range of this animal had become greatly 

 restricted, and its numbers very few. Under recent protection, how- 

 ever, it has shown a very gratifying increase. 



It is smaller than the mainland Serows, without heavy mane, and 

 with a thicker and more woolly coat and more bushy tail; coat 

 long, harsh, and crisp; general color varying in winter from blackish 

 gray to rufous brown, becoming whitish on the under parts; cheeks 

 white; legs blackish brown (Lydekker, 1913c, vol. 1, p. 200). 



"The Japanese serow is believed to inhabit the high mountains of 

 the islands of Nipon and Sikok, but definite information on this 

 point is much wanted" (Lydekker, 1901, p. 175). 



Thomas (1906, p. 357) records two specimens from Washikaguchi, 

 Nara Ken, Hondo, and quotes M. P. Anderson as follows: "The 

 Goat- Antelope is exceedingly rare in Nara Ken, and probably every- 



