188 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



south-eastern and eastern Asia, extending from the Himalaya 

 to the mountains of Sze-chuan, Kan-su, and other parts of 

 China, Tonkin, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Japan, and Formosa. 



1. SUBGENUS CAPRICORNIS. 



Large serows, with a heavy mane on neck, big ears, 

 comparatively sparse coat, and a moderately bushy tail. 



I. CAPKICOBNIS SUMATRENSIS. 



Antilope sumatraensis, Bechstein, Ubersicht vierfiiss. Thiere, vol. i, 



p. 98, 1799. 



Antilope sumatrensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 354, 1801. 

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) sumatrensis, H. Smith, Griffith's Anim. 



Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 277, vol. v, p. 352, 1827. 

 Naemorhsedus sumatrensis, Jardine, Nat. Libr. Mamm. vol. iv, p. 97, 



1836. 

 Antilope interscapularis, Lichtenstein, Berlin Mag. vol. vi, p. 165, 



1814. 

 Nemorhaedus sumatrensis, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, 



p. 272, 1846; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. 



Surg. pt. ii, p. 254, 1884 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 



p. 314 ; Lydekker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 139, 1907, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 940; Ward, Records of Big Game, 



ed. 6, p. 345, 1910. 

 Capricornis sumatrensis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Gray, 



List Mamm. Brit. Mus. pp. xxvi and 166, 1843, Cat. Ungulata 



Brit. Mus. p. Ill, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 20, 1872, 



Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 91, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 241, 1862; LydeTcker, Cat. Hume 



Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 23, 1913. 

 Austritragus sumatrensis, Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



vol. iv, p. 14, 1898. 

 Capricornis sumatraensis, Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 176. 



SEROW, OR SARAO. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



The identification of the Indian and Burmese serows with 

 the Sumatran species, as local races, was suggested by the 

 present writer in 1900, this view being provisionally adopted 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, p. 175), but subsequently abandoned 

 (Ibid. 1910, p. 855) by Pocock. 



The type species. Size large, shoulder-height reaching 

 37 or 38 inches. Colour variable, ranging from wholly black 

 except for some grey in the mane, to wholly rufous, but in 



