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interesting animals. Some of the results arrived at were set forth 

 in a paper published by the Society in 1908 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, 

 pp.178 — 190). The rest are embodied in the following pages. 



The first fact that speedily came to light was the characters of 

 the typical Sumatran animal and the discovery that no such race 

 exists, so far as is known, in British India. From the available 

 material, moreover, consisting of skulls and skins mostly preserved 

 in the British Museum, I found reason for thinking that there 

 were no fewer than four races of Serows inhabiting the Himalayas 

 north of Hindostan, namely, one in Kashmir, one in Chamba, one 

 in Nepal and one in Darjiling; that there were two in the Straits 

 Settlements, one coming from Selangor, the other from Perak. 

 To these have now to be added two from different localities in 

 Burma. 



Apart from the two from Malacca which are very possibly based 

 on dimorphic phases of one and the same race, the races above 

 mentioned seem to be valid and distinguishable forms in the sense 

 that they appear to be determinable both by cranial and integu- 

 mental characters. Nevertheless I do not think their distinctive 

 features are sufficiently rigid and invariable to justify us in giving 

 these forms full specific rank, for I have a strong suspicion that 

 when Serows are better known, that is to say, when more material 

 has been collected in the localities whence the types were obtained 

 and in localities from which skins have not yet come to hand, gra- 

 dations will be traced from one to another and thus justify the 

 view I now hold that all the Serows ranging from Kashmir 

 to Burma belong to one locally variable species. 



Although in my previous paper, as in the present one, the 

 known Serows of the Straits Settlements have been also referred 

 to the same species as the Himalayan and Burmese forms, I 

 am not sure that future discoveries will not show that they should 

 rank together with the Sumatran animal, as specifically distinct. 

 This suspicion rests more upon the characters of the skull than 

 iipon the colour of the coat, for the skull of the animal from 

 Selangor can be at once singled out from those of the Himalayan 

 animals by its general characters and dimensions, the profile 

 of the nose and forehead being markedly convex, the horns inclin- 

 ing much more strongly backwards, and the cranial region sloping 

 more abruptlj'" backwards and downwards, but in another and 

 younger skull of apparently the same animal, these characters 

 are much less marked. Until, therefore, a good deal more 

 material in the way of properly localised skulls, accompanied by 

 entire skins, has been examined, it seems to me that no final 

 settlement of the exact status to be accorded to the different 

 described forms of Serows can be reached. 



Sportsmen who shoot these animals not unnaturally think that 



