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of Selangor. The animal was actually captured near Batu on the 

 Coast of Selangor ; but according to Mr. H. C. Robinson, it must 

 have wandered thither either from the range of hills between 

 Selangor and Negri Sembilan to the south of it, or possibl}^ from 

 the main range of the Malay Peninsula. 



In 1908 a second specimen was forwarded to the Society by Mr, 

 Robinson's Assistant, Mr. Boden Kloss. This resembled in colour 

 the first example from Selangor. It was said, nevertheless, to have 

 been captured in Perak. It was to this specimen that belonged the 

 skull, mentioned above, as differing in certain particulars from the 

 skull of the type of rohinsoni. 



Subspecies : swettenhami, Butler. 



? JSfemorhcedus sumcdrensis, Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal XV., 

 pp. 272-278, 1846. 



Nemorlimdus sivettenhami, Butler,Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 675. 



Neniorhcedus stomairensis sivettenhami, Lydekker. The Game 

 Animals of India, Burma, Malay and Tibet, 1907, p. 147. 



Capricornis sumatraensis sivettenhami, Pocock. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1908, pp. 186-187. 



General colour black. The back strongly, the sides slightly 

 grizzled with grey, the bases of the hairs being white. Mane 

 black, mixed with whitish hairs on the forepart of the neck and 

 with reddish hairs towards the withers. Inside of thighs rusty 

 red. Neck, chest, belly, legs and tail black. Head black, but 

 the lips whitish grey, with some red on the upper lip, posteriorly 

 a patch of red on the lower jaw beneath, A rusty red patch on 

 the throat. Skull unknown. Horns from 6 to 8^ inches long. 



Bistrihution. — The Larut Hills in Perak ; Biserat in the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



There are two specimens of this animal in the Perak Museum, 

 an adult and young, which, according to Mr. Butler, are alike in 

 colouration, except that the kid had a narrow rufous band above 

 the hoof. A third specimen also resembling them, has been seen 

 by that gentleman ; and there is a skin from Biserat in the British 

 Museum which seems to be of exactly the same type. 



The evidence supplied by these skins of the apparent constancy 

 of the colouration of the Larut examples justified the view that 

 the Selangor example above described as rohinsoni represented a 

 distinct race intermediate between sivettenhami and typical sumat- 

 raensis. But this evidence was weakened by the arrival of the 

 rohinsoni form from Perak. I have, moreover, seen a skin in the 

 British Museum from the Siamese frontier of Malacca which seems 

 to me to be indistinguishable from typical sumatraensis. From 

 these facts I now incline very strongly to the opinion that the 

 Serows from South Malacca, named sivettenhami and rohinsoni are 



