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distinguished from the Nepalese race (thar') by the characters set 

 forth in the table (p. 303). In addition to the characters there 

 enumerated, it may be added that the coat is long and sharggy, 

 and has a plentiful supply of underfur, whereas in G. s. thar the 

 coat is more scanty and has little or no underfur so far as is known. 

 This indicates that the Chumba Serows live at a higher altitude 

 than those of Nepal. There are also differences of the skull, the 

 nasal bones of 0. s. rodoni being extremely short, much shorter 

 in fact than in G. s. thar and the following race G. s. hmnei. 



Sub-species : humei, Pocock. 



Capricornis siimatraensis humei, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908^ 

 p. 178, text fig. 31 (skull.) 



Distinguishable from the previously described races of Serows 

 by the uniform pale chocolate brown colour of the head. 



Distribution . — K ashm ir . 



This race is represented in the British Museum by a mounted 

 head belonging to Mr. Hume's collection. Apart from this noth- 

 ing is known of the pelage, but since the head is approximately the 

 same colour as the neck and body in all Serows hitherto described 

 it may be inferred that this Kashmir race is pale brown all over. 

 Moreover, if the law of the progressive change in the colour of the 

 legs from nearly black in specimens from Southern Malacca to 

 white in examples from Ohamba holds good to the west of the 

 last named district, the Kashmir animal will also prove to have 

 white legs. To sportsmen in Kashmir we must look for the 

 settlement of these questions. If it may be urged as a criticism 

 of basing a race of Serows on a single mounted head that the hairs 

 may have faded from black or dark brown to pale broMai, it must 

 be replied that one of Hodgson's Nepalese specimens has been exhi- 

 bited for at least the same length of time without turning to the 

 pale shade seen in Hnme's example. 



Further evidence for the distinctness of Kashmir Serows from 

 those further east is also supplied by a skull in the British Museum 

 from Pir Punjal, formerly belonging to Mr. Lydekker. It is, of 

 course, not certainly known that this skull resembles that of 

 Hume's specimen, biit until there is evidence to the contrary, this 

 may be assumed to be the case. This skull diff'ers from that of 

 the Ohamba race (rodoni) in having mnch longer nasal bones and 

 much shorter frontal bones, the suture between the two being near 

 the middle of the xipper edge of the lacrymal bone. The length 

 of the nasal bones far exceeds the length of the frontals measured 

 from the naso-frontal suture to the posterior rim of the orbit. In 

 the skull of the type of rodoni the nasal bones when so measured 

 fall short of the posterior rim of the orbit. 



