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of the red Serows sei'ves to connect these animals with Serows of 

 the ordinary type in which the black prevails. 



In response to my inquiry concerning the habitat of these goat- 

 antelopes, Mrs. Mnmford kindly furnished me with some particular 

 which I venture to quote verbatim from her letter : — 



" Both species of goat (Red Serow and Grey Goral) were shot 

 during Xmas-week, 1900, upon a mountain in the Arakan hill 

 tracts called Kyauk-pin-daung. The mountain is of very curious 

 formation for it rises abruptly out of the hills to a great height, 

 being in the form of a horse-shoe. It is sheer both on the convex 

 and concave sides of the horse-shoe. The top is a tableland at 

 its widest (say) a mile across, sloping up gradually to the highest 

 point and overgrown with a fine variety of coarse garss which 

 sparsely covers the slabs of rock and boulder of which the moun- 

 tain is formed. The convex side of the mountain presents a stern 

 and weather-worn aspect ; and there is only scrub vegetation 

 consisting of bushes and coarse grass with some few deciduous 

 trees on its face. Here the goats live. On the concave side there 

 is little or no bamboo on the rock, but all up its face there are 

 plenty of small deciduous trees. The undergrowth here is so thick 

 that it is impossible to see anything except at close quarters, 

 whereas the convex side of the mountain is comparatively bare. 

 The sloping surface of the mountain leading on each side from its 

 extremit}^ up to the shoulder where the tableland begins is covered 

 like all the hill tracts, with a maze and jungle of fine bamboo, 

 which, however, ends abruptly at the edge of the tableland, which 

 in addition to the coarse grass alread}^ mentioned bears the common 

 English bracken. Both bison, tzaing (the Burmese wild cattle) 

 the black Honey Bear and a species of deer range this tableland, 

 also tiger and elephant ; but they do not live there as it is only 

 after the rains that the grass springs up and attracts the elephant, 

 bison and tzaing up to feed. There are no monkeys so high up, 

 though from the highest point late at night or early in the 

 morning their chattering may be heard hundreds of feet below\ 



I well remember the day the red goat (Serow) was shot. My 

 husband and a friend and I were out after brown goats (Goral) 

 and while peering v/ith glasses over the precipice we saw far below 

 a large reddish goat lying up. She was lying sunning herself 

 under a bare tree, the trees being leafless at that time of the year, 

 and did not seem to hear its. I fired at her, but whether I hit her or 

 not we never knew, for she jumped up and plunged away ; but my 

 husband fired immediately after I did and one of us must have hit 

 her young one which was lying between her and the tree and 

 which we had not seen. Hearing it cry she came back again, 

 calling to it, but a third shot frightened her, and she plunged down 

 the cliff helter skelter followed by a shower of stones and shale. 



