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probably racially identical with typical sumatraensis as Hamilton 

 Smith long ago thought. It would, however, be premature, I 

 think, to unite them before craniological proof of their identity is 

 forthcoming. Whether the Serows from Tenasserim mentioned 

 by Dr. Cantor belong to this black-legged race or to rubidus or 

 milne-edivardsii or are different from all three, remains to be ascer- 

 tained. 



Subspecies : ruhidus, Blyth. 



Gajyricornis ruhida, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Asiatic Soc, p. 174, 

 1863 (foot-note). 



Gapricornis swmatrensis, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Bui'ma, p. 46, 1875. 



Nemorhcedus sumatrensis, Blanford, Fauna of British India : 

 Mammalia, pp. 514-515, 1891 (in part). 



Nemorhcedus rubidus, A. L. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1900, 

 p. 675. 



Nemorhcedus sumatrensis ruhidus, Lydekker, Game Animals of 

 India, p, 143, 1907. 



Prevailing colour red all over, paler beneath, a blackish spinal 

 stripe extending to the tip of the tail ; white on the chin, lower 

 jaw and upper end of the throat ; whitish on the fetlocks and 

 sometimes also on the knees. 



Distribution. — Assam (Shillong), Chittagong, Arakan, Salween. 



I am indebted to Dr. IST. Annandale, the Director of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, for the following information about the type 

 and other examples of this race of Serows preserved in the Museum 

 under his charge. " The type of C. ruhida appears to have been 

 destroyed, judging from an old annotated copy of the Asiatic 

 Society's Catalogue, over 30 years ago, before the Societj^'s collec- 

 tion was transferred to the Indian Museum. " There are two 

 other examples, however, in the collection, one from Shillong, the 

 other, a young one, from Chittagong. Dr. Annandale's tempo- 

 rary Assistant Mr. T. Bentham, kindly supplied the following par- 

 ticulars about these in answer to some inquiries I made with regard 

 to points Blyth had omitted to mention. " The individual hairs 

 are white at the base and red distally and have no black in them ; 

 the knees and fetlocks are white and the white of the chin extends 

 along the lower jaw to join the white patch on the throat. The 

 underside is not white but dirty greyish fawn which extends only 

 jn the extreme underside of the body and reaches the knee joints 

 on the inside of the legs ; the M^horls of hair at the base of the 

 forelegs in front, are not white but light golden brown with white 

 bases to the hair." Blyth's original specimens, namely, a mounted 

 head and two flat skins, it may be added, came from Arakan. 



Of this race I have only seen two skins. One is in the British 

 Museum but unfortunately has no locality. It is that of an adult 



