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The local legend is to the effect that wild dog live in a large pack numbering 
anything up to a hundred and ruled over by a Black King-Dog, this troupe 
however is rarely met with and what is usually seen is only a small band of 
outlying scouts. 
I have myself only met wild dog five times. 
(1) In Shwebo District some Burmans brought one just dead which they had 
killed with dahs while it was swimming the Irrawaddy (half a mile) ; it was 
alone. 
(2) In Tharrawaddy District some four or five (mute) were running a Gyi in 
circles. Twice the Gyi galloped through my camp and the dogs were apparently 
in relays ringing it in. As I could not see a dog I finished the hunt by bagging 
the Gyi. 
(3) In Shwebo District I saw one dog trotting up a stream and a good ten 
minutes later the pack (six in open order) came through the jungle on both 
sides. I killed two (similar to the skin just sent you). 
(4) In Shwebo District I saw a Thamin covered with sweat and mud and on 
killing it found one eye freshly torn out and the other badly gashed. It was 
very ‘done ” and stiffened at once on being shot. On this occasion the dogs 
were scared by the shooting as we heard them turn away, but did not see them. 
(5) One night in Tharrawaddy in 1910 (cold weather) when camped in the 
Pegu Yomas, I heard dogs in full cry (rather like a poor voiced pack of hounds). 
We were some 20 miles from any village, so it wasn’t pie dog and as the noise 
came from the valley below me it was not geese. The Burmese Girdling Coolies all 
said “ wild dog” and added that one often heard them. This rather upsets 
the theory that they run mute, but it is the only time I have heard them 
** Scorning to cry ” like Puffington’s hounds. 
On every occasion the dogs have been of apparently the species of which I 
sent you a skin, and were in small packs. Is it possible, however, that these dogs 
(apart from the Black King theory) do at times hunt in much larger packs, or 
could these alleged packs of eighty seen by Burmans be the smaller variety ? 
As to the reliability of the two Burmans, they were both skilled shikaris and 
not the well known type that wants one after hours of tramping to shoot, a 
sitting dove with a °470 H. V., rifle. 
C. E. MILNER. 
SHWEBO, 
10th June 1921. 
No. VI,—DISTRIBUTION OF SEROW IN BURMA.* 
I have recently shot up here, in the Maigthon Hills of Mu Forest Division, a 
Red Serow which does not seem to fit in with any of the species classified on 
page 296, Volume XXII, No. 2, of the Journal. The skin and mask are now with 
Messrs. Theobald of Mysore, should you consider it worth while examining them. 
Perhaps a brief account of my distinctly limited experience of Serow in Burma 
will best emphasize the points I want to raise, namely :— 
(i) Do the various sub-species of Serow overlap ? 
(ii) Are the sexes differently coloured ? 
(tii) Do the different sub-species interbreed ? 
I only know of three separate hills in this Division where Serow occur. 
Each being some 30-—40 miles away from the other. 
On the first two hills I have never seen more than the animals’ tracks, but in 
each case the Burmans assure me the animal is black with reddish legs below the 
knee, 7.e., Capricornis sumatrensis swettenhami, I imagine. 
On the third hill I had two beats last January. In the first beat a mother and 
kid were put out, but I did not see them. Burmese evidence as to their colour is 
* The Editors’ comments on Mr. Milner’s interesting notes will appear in No, 3 having unfor- 
tunately been crowded out of this number. 
