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vinicorn rams ; (2) the big coarse-haired Ladak race commonly used for 

 •carrying burdens ; (3) the very coarse-woolled or hairy brown-breed of 

 Southern India, often kept for fighting purposes ; (4) various races of fat- 

 tailed sheep originating in the Persian Gulf, probably much degenerated 

 in India ; (5) the black and white Aden breed, and (6) the fine-woolled 

 Afghan breed of which I know absolutely nothing, except its skin in the 

 form of a poshteen. 



I shall be glad to pay any reasonable expenses entailed in this inquiry, 

 if any one who is interested will communicate with me. Our difficulties 

 are increased by the fact that no live sheep can be imported to England 

 now, except through the Zoological Gardens, and that the Oriental races 

 seldom live long in this country. 



H. J. EL WES. 



CoLESBOKN, 2271(1 A2Jril 1911. 



[We hope members will help Professor Cossar Ewart and Mr. Blwes in this 

 inquiry, and we shall be happy to forward any skins or heads for members to 

 Bngiand. — Eds.] 



No. X.— WEIGHT AND MEASUREMENTS OF A SEROW. 



At the invitation of a friend, I was out shooting the other day on a tea 

 garden some two miles below the station of Kurseong. We first beat a 

 precipitous hillside (elevation about] 1,800') covered with light bamboo and 

 scrub jungle. The luck was all on my friend's side, the result of two barrels 

 and a third to "mak sicca" being a Barking deer [Ccrvulus muntjac) and a 

 Serow {Nemorhoidus bubalinus), the measurements of the latter, taken by 

 mjrself personally, were as follows : — 



' Length, tip of muzzle to root of tail . . 5'-4" 

 Do. do. including tail . . G'-T" 



Height at withers . . . . . . . . 3' 



Girth behind shoulder 3'-8'' 



Length of horns . . . . . . . . 7|" 



Weight 260 lbs. 



The above was a female and seemed in lirst class condition. The flesh 

 which we tasted we thought somewhat resembled beef. 



Lower down in the Balasar valley we were lucky enough to secure a 

 woodcock, and flushed a second, which however was far too wary a bird to 

 leave the bamboo jungle, though the beaters did their best to make him 

 show himself. A Kalij and some other birds ended a most enjoyable little 

 shoot. 



ALEX. M. PRIMROSE. 



LONGVIEW, T. E., PUNKABARI P. O., 



IQth March IQII. 



