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No. XV.— NOTES ON BURMESE SEROWS. 



In Volume XXII, p. 296, there appears a most interesting article on 

 «5erows and I send you photographs of two of these queer beasts, also a 

 water colour drawing of the red one shot by my husband in 1899, which I 

 painted a few hours later when it was brought into camp. You may notice 

 the difference in the shape of the nose between the drawing and the photo- 

 graph; the drawing is correct: the nose was like a calf's, not like a deer's. 



The other photograph is of a tame serow we had for some time in Toun- 

 goo. A most quaint beast, very affectionate and extraordinarily tame with 

 those he knew. He used to insist on cdming upstairs and lying on the carpet 

 beside the piano in my drawing room and he would allow no stranger inside 



Height at withers 3' IJ", length of horns lOJ", circumference 5". 

 the compound after dark. He hated the natives of India, but was quite 

 friendly with Europeans or Burmans and his delight to see his former 

 owner when he came to visit him was quite touching. He was captured as 

 a kid by an old Burman villager of Thawati at the foot of the Pegu Yoma, 

 who thought the dam must have been killed by a leopard after bein chased 

 by it out of the hills. 



" Amg Bala, " as we called our serow, was most regular in his habits, 

 he went out to graze at 4 a.m. jumping over the compound gate with the 

 greatest ease and returned on the stroke of 11 to sleep. At 3 p.m. he went 

 out again, usually first taking his stand on a point of the high bank over- 



