THE 8ER0 WS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 301 



there is nothing fresh to be found out about them and are con- 

 tented with the frontlet or the entire skull and at most the skin 

 on the head. But through the medium of the pages of this 

 Journal I should like to be permitted to appeal for entire skins 

 and skulls accompanied by full particulars as to dates, locality 

 and altitudes. By this means alone can we hope to learn more 

 than we know at present about the variations exhibited by 

 SerowB in different localities and the changes, if any, they may 

 show in connection with sex, age and season in the same district. 

 Our existing knowledge on these important points amounts 

 to very little. 



The characters of the races of Serows that have been described 

 from different localities within the areas to which this paper 

 is restricted may be briefly tabulated as follows : — 



a. Legs below knees and hocks mostly black ; 



horns inclined backwards in the plane of 



the forehead. 

 a}. Mane composed of black and white hairs . . robinsoni. 



b^. Mane with a considerable amount of red 



in it swettenhami , 



b. Legs below knees and hocks rusty red or 



white ; horns more uptilted. 



a-. Body, head and limbs all red rubidus. 



b'-. Body, head and limbs not all red. 



rt\ Head and body brownish-black or black. 



a*. Legs with a considerable amount of 



rusty red or yellow below knees and 



hocks. 



a'. Legs below knees and hocks all 



rusty ; body brownish black milne-edxvardsii . 



b^. Legs below knees and hocks rusty 

 fawn ; knees and fetlocks white ; 



body jet black jamrachi. 



b^. Legs white or dirty white below knees 



and hocks. 



c^ Belly only a little paler than the 



sides, their colours blending ; much 



less white on the jaw and throat 



and breast thar. 



¥, Belly white and sharply contrasted 

 with the rufous-brown of the sides; 

 much white on chest and along 



lower jaw .' rodoni. 



b^ Head pale chocolate-brown, body probably 

 that colour also and legs probably 

 white below Tiumei. 



Capricornis sumatraensis. 



Typical sub-species sumatraensis, Bechst. 



The Cambing Outan, Marsden, Sumatra, ed. 1, p. 93, ed. 3, 

 II, p.11.5, pi. XIV, 1811. 



