188 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



south-eastern and eastern Asia, extending from the Himalaya 

 to the mountains of Sze-chuan, Kan-su, and other parts of 

 China, Tonkin, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Japan, and Formosa. 



1. Subgenus CAPRICORNIS. 



Large serows, with a heavy mane on neck, big ears, 

 comparatively sparse coat, and a moderately bushy tail. 



I. CAPEICOENIS SUMATRENSIS. 



Antilope sumatraensis, Bechstein, Vbersicht vierfilss. Thiers, vol. i, 



p. 98, 1799. 

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

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) sumatrensis, H. Smith, Griffith's Anim. 



Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 277, vol. v, p. 352, 1827. 

 Nsemorhaedus sumatrensis, Jardine, Nat. Libr. Mamm. vol. iv, p. 97, 



1836. 

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



1814. 

 Nemorhsedus sumatrensis, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv, 



p. 272, 1846 ; Flower and Qarson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. 



Surg. pt. ii, p. 254, 1884 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 



p. 814 ; Lydehker, Game Animah of India, etc. p. 139, 1907, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1908, p. 940 ; Wa7-d, Becords of Big Game, 



ed. 6, p. 345, 1910. 

 Capricomis sumatrensis, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Gray, 



List Mamm. Brit. Mas. pp. xxvi and 166, 1843, Cat. TJngalata 



Brit. Mus. p. Ill, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 20, 1872, 



Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 91, 1873; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 241, 1862 ; Lydehher, Cat. Hume 



Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 23, 1913. 

 Austritragus sumatrensis, Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



vol. iv, p. 14, 1898. 

 Caprioornis sumatraensis, Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 176. 



Seeow, oe Saeao. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



The identification of the Indian and Burmese serows with 

 the Sumatran species, as local races, was suggested by the 

 present writer in 1900, this view being provisionally adopted 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1908, p. 175), but subsequently abandoned 

 (Ibid. 1910, p. 855) by Pocock. 



The type species. — Size large, shoulder-height reaching 

 37 or 38 inches. Colour variable, ranging from wholly black 

 except for some grey in the mane, to wholly rufous, but in 



