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looked upon as a lucky fluke. Besides being scarce, serow are 

 uncommonly wary, and are said by natives to travel for miles if 

 disturbed. 



Colonel Kinloch is one of the very few people who have 

 laid themselves out to hunt serow, and his experiences are 

 scarcely encouraging, though Ward says that in the winter 

 months serow can be found with comparative ease in the Sindh 

 Valley, in Cashmere. The serow seems, like sambur, to be 



The serow gallops down hill 



nocturnal in its habits, and its discordant scream is often to be 

 heard after dark in Gurwhal, where it is comparatively plentiful. 

 The serow's chief accomplishment is the way that he can 

 gallop down a steep hill, and as he invariably takes that course 

 when disturbed, he can be easily driven, provided the ground 

 is well known. All writers agree that a wounded one will 

 charge. Kinloch mentions having heard of an unwounded 

 male charging when its mate was shot, and Ward gives a graphic 



