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oufc — to end of tail 60 inches, and height at shoulder 30 inches. I 

 should say the weight would have been about 140 lbs. The horns 

 of a male and of a female shot b}*- me measured Sk inches and 8f inches, 

 respectively, in length along the outer front curve. Tlie depth of the 

 curve, which is but slight, would be only about an inch between the 

 inner side of the curve and a straight line drawn from tip to base. I 

 should say that an)- horns over 9 inches in length would be qinte 

 exceptional in Siam. 



1 can see no great ilifFerence in liie size, weight of body and 

 length of horns of the male and the female Serow. In both sexes the 

 tail is very short, not longer than (i inches as a rule, while the ears are 

 large, about two-thirds as long as the horns. The neck is short, and 

 carries a short dark grey mane of coarse, straight haii-, as a rule erect 

 and about 6 inc^hes long, which extends to between the shoulder blades, 

 where it shortens in length to a ridge ot longi^h hairs along the back- 

 bone. The hair of the body generally is coarse, and does not forni a 

 ver}- thick coat in this climate, but probabl}^ it is longer and thicker 

 in a colder one. On Mr. l^utler's specimen the hair seems to me to he 

 longer than is usual. Possibly this is because the other pelts I have 

 seen were those of animals shot in the hot season, and liis specimen 

 Avas shot in Noveml)er towards tlie end of the rains. I'he hair mav 

 grow loiigvr in the wet and cold season, and may be moulted iii the 

 dry season. The young Serow are darker than the old ones, wliii-h 

 become somewhat grey owing to the increase of white hairs among 

 the black, I have never seen a Serow with a beard like a goat, au 

 animal which, on a large scale, it resembles. The legs are remarkably 

 for the thickness and strength of their bones compared with the size 

 of the animal, appearing to measure more below the knees than those 

 of a Sambur deer. The feet are not big in pi'oportion, but are small 

 and compact, not splayed. The bones of the legs gave me the im|)res- 

 sion of being exti-a hard and close-grained in texture. The iris of 

 tlie eye is a very dark blue. 



In Siam the Serow inhabits steeji and, in many cases, preciiii- 

 tous hills and low nu»untains. not, in my experience, exceeding loOU 

 feet, and generally much lower. ]^er.-onally I have never seen or 

 heard of it on any except those of limestone formation. It is not very 

 markedly nocturnal in its habit?, though said to be as nnu h so as thi 

 Sambur deer, but moves about, to some small extent at all events, in 



