176 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON [Mar. 17, 



The genus Ccqmcornis ranges through the Himalayas from 

 Kashmir eastwards into Southern China and thence southwards 

 through Burma and the Malay Peninsula into Sumatra. 



Oapricornis sumatraen>sis Bechst. 



Antilope sumatraensis. Bechstein, TJebersicht vierf iiss. Thiere, i. 

 p. 98, 1799 (based on the Cambing Outan, Marsden's Sumatra, 

 ed. i, p. 93). 



Antilope sumairensis Shaw, Gen. Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 354, 1801. 

 Ncemorhedus sumairensis H. Smith, Griffith's An. King. iv. 

 p. 277, 1827 ; Jardine, Nat. Libr., Mamm. iv. p. 97, pi. ii., 1836. 

 Antilope intersoapularis Lichtenstein, Berlin Mag. vi. p. 165, 

 1814. 



Nee N'emoj'hcedus sumatrensis Blanford, Fauna Bi'it. India, 

 Mammalia, p. 514, 1891 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of 

 India, p. 128, 190.0; id. op. cit. nov. ed. p. 139, 1907; id. in 

 Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 345, 1907, 



The typical race of this species differs from all the known 

 Himalayan forms in having the mane on the neck and withers 

 hoary grey and constrasting forcibly with the dai'k coat of the 

 rest of the body, and also in having no sharp line of demarcation 

 in colour between the upper and lower portions of the legs, which 

 are blackish below the knees and hocks, merely fading to dark 

 brown upon the fetlocks. The conspicuousness of the mane 

 obviously suggested the name inters capukuHs given to this animal 

 by Lichtenstein. 



It is to be noted that Dr. Blanford must have omitted to look 

 up the original literature of this species, since he assigned the 

 name sumatrensis to Serows from Moupin, Burma, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and other localities which are quite different from the 

 Sumatran form ; and I have reason to think that, misled by 

 him, Mr. Lydekker, in the works quoted above, described as 

 typical C. sumatrensis the Darjiling Serow to which I have given 

 below the subspecific name javirachi. 



It may be added that for many years there has been in the 

 British Museum a subadult specimen of a Sumatran Serow agree- 

 ing in all essential respects with the examples figured and 

 described by earlier authors as Antilope or Nemorhcedus sumatra- 

 ensis {sumatrensis). It was originally presented to the Zoological 

 Society by Sir Stamford Raffles. Inspection of this specimen by 

 later authors would have saved all the misconception as to the 

 characters of this race which have been so frequently repeated in 

 recent literature on the subject. 



Subsp. THAR Hodgson. 



The Bubaline Antelope, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, iii. 

 p. 122, April 1831 (no scientific name). 



Antilope tliar Hodgson, Gleanings, iii. p. 324, Oct. 1831 ; id. 

 P.Z.S. 1833, p. 105. 



Antilope {Nemorhedus) tluiT Hodgson, P.Z.S. 1834, p. 86. 



