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Nor does it agree in any way, as might perhaps have been expected, with 
Blyth’s N. rubidus from Arakan, Blyth described the Arakan species (Cat. 
Mamm. Mus, As. Soc., 1863, p. 174), from a stuffed head, an adult skin and 
one of a kid, as being “ of a red-brown colour with black dorsal list ; the hair 
shorter than that of the others”’ The Malayan animal is mostly black, the. 
under-colour on the back is greyish-white ; the hair is not shorter than in 
N, sumatrensis. 
Description of a female specimen in the Perak Museum, shot by Sir Frank 
Swettenham on the Larut Hills, Perak, early in 1899 :— 
NEMORHADUS SWETTENHAMI, Sp. 0. 
General colour black, the back strongly and the sides slightly grizzled 
with grey, the bases of the hairs being whitish, Along the lips whitish- 
grey; the posterior portion of the upper lips, a patch on each side of the 
lower jaw, and one on the throat, rusty-red. Fars black, grizzled with rusty 
at the base, and lined and edged with greyish-white hairs. Mane black, 
mixed with whitish hairs on the fore part of the neck and with reddish hairs 
towards. the withers, Insides of the thighs rusty-red, Remainder of head, 
neck, chest, belly, and legs black, Tail black. 
Height at shoulder 363 inches ; from nose to root of tail over curves of 
body 58 inches ; tail 44 inches. Length of horns 6 inches, 
Named after Sir Frank Swettenham, Resident-General of the Federated 
Malay States, whose specimen appears to be the first ever shot by a European. 
Mr, L, Wray, of the Perak Musenm, has seen an adult male in the flesh, 
too decomposed to be preserved, but of which he kept the skeleton, I once 
had an opportunity of watching one in the jungle for a minute or so not more 
than fifteen paces distant ; and quite recently a kid was captured alive by 
coolies on the Larut Hills, having strayed into a wired-in tennis court. All 
these were similar in colour to the one described, which may therefore be 
taken as a typical specimen of the Malayan species. The kid differed from 
the adult onl, in having a very narrow ring of rufous round the top of the 
hoof, This youngster Mr. Wray andI were particularly anxious to send 
home alive to the S ciety’s Gardens under tie charge of Mr. Keilich, of the 
Perak Museum, who was shortly proceeding io Engl nd, but unfortunately it 
died after five or six days’ captivity, The specimen is now inthe Museum 
along with the adult, 
Although this Serow is so little known to Europeans the horns are occa- 
sionally obtained from th: Sakai tribes of the hills,and I have notes of a 
dozen pairsas follows :—8j inches, 8, 73, 73, 62, 63,63, 62, 63, 64, 6, 6. 
Eight inches appears to be a good head. 
The Malay name for this animal is ‘‘ Kambing grun,” .e., ““ Cave-goat.” 
It is found on the mountains of the Peninsula from 2,000 ft. to 4,000 feet 
altitude, and is said also to occur on various isolated limestone hills of much 
lower elevation, 
