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in the Malay Peninsula. This is in the British Museum (Reg. 

 No. 3.2.6.77). Butler records the animal from the Larut Hills 

 in Perak. In the Biserat skin the occipital crest is composed of 

 hair principally white with black or red extremities ; the rest of 

 the mane consists of a mixture of red, black, and white ha,ir, the 

 red being much in evidence ; also the pale patch on the anterior 

 portion of the lower jaw is mostly red. It is on account of the 

 ahnost complete absence of red from the mane and the small 

 amount on the jaw of the Selangor specimen that I regard it 

 as representing a geographical race of Serow, distinct from 

 C. s. swettenhami. 



It is important here to repeat Mr. Butler's statement that a 

 dead specimen seen by Mr. L. Wray, a living specimen seen 

 by himself in the jungle, and a stuffed young one together 

 with the type in the Perak Museum are alike, to all intents 

 and purposes, in colour. Including, therefore, the example from 

 Biserat in the British Museum, no fewer than live skins have 

 been examined and reported upon. This is sufficient to justify 

 the conclusion as to the constancy of the characters upon which 

 C. s. swettenhami was based and to warrant the view that the 

 Selangor form described above must be regarded as distinct. 



I learn from Mr. H. 0. Robinson, F.Z.S., the Curator of the 

 Selangor State Museum, that this Serow was surprised in a patch 

 of scrub near Batu on the coast of Selangor, and driven by dogs 

 into the sea, where it was captured. There are no hills of more 

 than two or three hundred feet in height for many miles from 

 the spot where it was first discovered, the district towards the 

 coast being mostly swampy land. The Serow must have wandered 

 either from the range of hills between Negri Sembilan and 

 Selangor, which jut off from the main backbone of the Peninsula 

 of Malacca, or possibly from the latter range itself. 



The animal was kept alive by natives for three months before 

 it was shipped for London. It arrived in a very emaciated 

 condition and died after a few weeks from starvation, caused by 

 the blocking of the pylorus with masses of thickly felted soft 

 woolly hair. That this was not derived fronj the animal itself is 

 rendered probable by the absence of all underfur to the coat. 

 It seems possible, therefore, that the animal devoured a blanket, 

 or a piece of woollen cloth, during the time of his captivity with 

 the natives. 



The skulls of the typical C. s. sumatraensis and of C. s. swetten- 

 hami are unknown to me ; but that of C. s. rohinsom differs in 

 certain well-marked features from the skulls of all the Himalayan 

 and Burmese specimens that I have been able to examine in the 

 British Museum. It is long, narrow, and high, the frontals being 

 unusually elevated and convex both aritero- posteriorly and 

 transversely between the orbits, so that the plane of the horns 

 lies in almost the same line as the plane of the face, and the 

 downward slope of the cranium posteriorly is somewhat abrupt. 

 The facial or lacrymal fossa is^ shallow. The nasals also are 



