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MR. E. LYDEKKER ON 



[Dec. 15, 



In September last Mr. J. W. Brooke * presented to the British 

 Museum (Xat. Hist.) the skins and skulls of an adult male and 

 female of the White- maned Serow obtained by himself and Mr. 0. 

 H. Mears at Towquan, 60 miles north of Kanshieu, E".W. China. 

 That they belong to this species is evident from the fact that 

 the greater part of the fore-legs and the whole of the hind- 

 legs, inclusive of the lower portion of the thighs, ai-e bright rusty 

 red. Both skins, as indicated by the teeth and horns of the 

 associated skulls, belong to fully adult animals ; the horns being 

 much larger than those of the immature mounted specimen in the 

 British Museum. From that specimen, and also from one recently 

 figured by Mr. M. W. Lyon, the new skins difier, however, by 

 the absence of such a distinctly white mane as occurs in the 

 immature female. 



Text-fis. 192. 



A female of the Sze-cliuen race of the Sevow, Nemorhcedus sumatrensis milne- 

 edtvardsi, from a photograph b}' Mr. J. W. Brooke. 



In all the races of the ordinary Serow (iV. sumatrensis), as is 

 well shown in the figures illustrating the paper by Mr. Pocock 

 already mentioned, the skull is relatively broad and short, 

 with the nasal bones likewise proportionately broad and short, 

 although there is a considerable degree of local variation in this 

 respect. These characters are exemplified in a third skull (text- 

 fig. 191 A, p. 941) sent home by Mr. Brooke. I believe this to 

 belong to the same species as the Serow shown in the annexed 

 reproduction from a photograph (text-fig. 192), which is evidently 



* [We much regret to note that since the reading of this communication news 

 of the murder of Mr. Brooke in China has reached England.] 



