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that it is being rolled rapidly on wheels. It is said to have the habit 

 of depositing its dung in some particular spot, like the Rhinoceros. I 

 think this is true, in the neighbourhood of their lairs at all events. 

 1 have found the lair of a Serow with a very large accumulation of 

 droppings heaped rp about 10 yards away from it, with a well braten 

 track from the iair to the heap. 



The most remarkable thing I have noti<'ed in connection with 

 these animals is the quite extraordinary roar wliich they can emit when 

 wounded, or possibl\' when angry. ^Vhen hunting near Khao Kiou, 

 West of Potaram, in Muang Ratburi. one of my V)eater.s shot a nearly 

 fuligrown male Serow. It was so badly wounded as to bj unalile to 

 move, and died in a lew minutes. After being hit it emitte I two or 

 three long roars which conveyed a great volume of sound and ([uite an 

 appalling idea of feiocity and rage ; so much so that until I actually 

 saw the animal 1 could not Ijelieve such a injise could be made by a 

 Serow, and thought that the shot niu-t havf wounded a tiger. I was 

 less than two hundred yards from it at the time and went at once in 

 the direction of the sound; it was dead when I leached it. A native 

 of the district who was standing near me when it roared assured me, 

 without hesitation, that the noise was made by a Serow, so presumably 

 lie had heard it un previous occasions. The author of the article on 

 Serow in the Badniintun Library mentions •'the discordant scivaiu 

 " of the Serow heard after dark." Colonel Kinloch (pioted l)y Blanfor I 

 says, "when disturbed the Serow uttei's a singulai- S)und between 

 "a snort and a .screaming whistle, and i have heard them screaming 

 "loudly when they had apparently not Iteeii alarniPil.'" 



Tile Serow is accounted by natives, and I believe generally, a 

 somewhat difficult animal to bag. In some places that 1 know ot the 

 natives have given u|) iiunting it as they find it so hard to kill. Jt 

 is a c )mmon tale that when \vt)unde(l ir licks the wuiin 1 which at once 

 heals, even if it is a broken leg I 



I. should sav from what 1 know of huntint? them near Koh fllak 

 that thev were not difficult to baic in that ncio-hhourhood. the hills 

 they frequent there being small so that the animals can easily be 

 driven tiom one to an<jther, an i shots thus obtained at sliott rang-*. 

 From the experiences of Mr. 13utler and Dr. Smith, it also seems to be 

 fairly easy to stalk them thei-e w.ien they are feeding at tlw base 

 o:' the hill. On lar^'er hills it needs a ■errain amount o.' knowledge 



