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looking the Sittang river which flowed just under the house, whence he 

 snorted defiance at all comers and then cantered off to feed, sometimes 

 inside and sometimes outside the compound as the fancy took him. He al- 

 ways came back at dusk trotted into his shed and lay down like a dog, first 

 goat-like dropping on his knees. The strangest thing of all was that he 

 made friends with my pet leopard and I once actually saw the leopard 

 stroking his face with his paw, the serow apparently thoroughly enjoying it. 

 The serow was to have gone home to Woburn, but both he and the leopard 

 unfortunately died. I afterwards had a baby (female) serow from the 

 Karen Hills which would not drink cow's milk unless there was salt in it, but 

 she also died when about three months old. She was just as tame as a 

 domestic goat. Both these were almost jet black on the back with pepper 

 and salt greyish sides and reddish legs. 



"Amg Bala's" skin is now set up in the Dublin Museum and the skin and 

 head of the red serow are at Leyrath, in Kilkenny. 



OHAELOTTE T. W. CU.FFE. 

 IJppBRFOLD, Maymyo, 27th July 1914. 



[The above figure is a reproduction of Mrs. Cuffe's excellent sketch of the Red 

 Serow. The red Serow is apparently Cajn-icornis sumatraensis rubidus and the 

 two young ones sumatraensis milne-edivardsi cf Mr- Pococfs paper in Vol. XXII of 

 of the Society's Journal. Ed.] 



No. XVI.— SEROW, GORAL, ETC. 



In Volume XXII, No. 2 of the Journal is a very interesting communi- 

 cation by Mr. R. I. Pocock on the above-named animals. On the 18th 

 March 1897 a short paper on the Burmese Serow submitted by me was read 

 before the Society. From later knowledge I have come to - the conclusion 

 that these animals are distributed more or less throughout Burma and its 

 frontiers, i.e. on most of the hill ranges of high or low elevation which are 

 forest clad and are in other respects suitable to serow. Not very long ago 

 a sportsman went from here to a station some 40 miles up the Prome line 

 and then did a tramp over the low hills not far off where he secured a good 

 specimen. I have never seen one in the hills to the west of Pegu or Toun- 

 goo, or in the ranges between the Sittang and the Salween, but have time 

 and again had ample evidence of their presence in those localities. A 

 friend secured a young animal in the Toungoo hills which unfortunately 

 died. They may be met with from the Akyab District right through the 

 Arakan ranges. They have been obtained in these hills in the Arakhan Hill 

 Tracts, Thayetmyo, Minbu, Pakokku districts, etc. Judging from the number 

 of skulls I met with in the houses of Chiefs and villagers in the Northern 

 and Southern Chin Hills there must have been quite a number. It is well 

 known that they are present in other ranges in the Upper Province and 

 Shan States. I can to some extent endorse the statement made by Mr. 

 G. W. Bird and quoted by Mr. Pocock on page 309. I would not say they 

 are common, if this is meant to imply that they are very numerous. About 

 ninety miles from the mouth of the Salween where one of its affluents (Yon- 

 zalin) runs in from the west, the hills to the east recede while those to the 

 west grow rapidly less in altitude, and the river enters a more open and 

 comparatively level country, small isolated limestone hills may be 

 observed at intervals on both banks and also inland rising abruptly 

 from the plain. The hills may be single, in groups of two or three 

 or even constituting a small chain, some are low, none very lofty, 

 but all with naked jagged cliffs the tops often appearing as serrated 

 ridges. These hills are invariably difficult to climb so the tops are 

 I imagine rarely visited by European sportsmen and not often by the 



