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length, in a straight line from base to tip. They are slightly curved backward 

 and divergent. 



A single skull obtained from the natives in the Province, probably also 

 represents this subspecies, as it agrees with the two other skulls in the great 

 breadth, 46 mm., of the combined nasals (these are 48.5 and 42 mm. respectively 

 in the two other skulls). By some accident the left horn core of this skull had 

 been broken off, but was completely covered by horn, smoothly worn. 



In addition to the skins and skulls, Mr. Zappey brought back a half dozen 

 pairs of horns, still attached to the occipital portion of their respective skulls. 

 These are without data and hence are not subspecifically identifiable. The 

 largest pair measures from the base at the outer side to the tip in a straight line, 

 257 mm. This pair is further remarkable in that the horns instead of diverging 

 evenly from the base, after bowing out slightly for the first three quarters of their 

 length are approximated toward their tips so that the latter are scarcely 33 mm. 

 apart. 



CAPRICORNIS SUMATRENSIS MILNE EDWARDSI (David). 



A skin with skull, taken at Tachienlu, western Szechwan, at an altitude of 

 10,000 feet, seems undoubtedly to represent this eastern Tibetan Serow, which 

 here must be nearly at the eastward limit of its range. The coloration of the 

 fore legs, which is considered of diagnostic value in separating the various races 

 of Serows, is nearly uniform cinnamon rufous with some admixture of buffy 

 hairs, but no suggestion of the dark blackish metacarpal patches of the race 

 argyrochaetes. The mane is also rather more conspicuously whitish. In the 

 skull, which is that of an adult male, the greatest combined breadth of the nasals 

 is markedly less (33 mm.) than in the skulls of the latter, and the entire nasal 

 region is more arched and laterally compressed. 



I have followed Pocock and Lydekker in considering this Serow as a race 

 of the type species from Sumatra. It seems probable, however, that it might 

 with equal propriety be considered a distinct species as their ranges have not 

 been shown to be strictly continuous. 



CERVIDAE. 



ELAPHODUS CEPHALOPHUS Milne Edwards. 



An adult female, from Putze, Hupeh, agrees in cranial proportions with 

 those given by Milne Edwards for his specimens from Moupin. The collector's 



