OF INDIAN BIG GAME 23 



presented by Mr. Hume to the Museum in 1891 the horn- 

 length is 20| inches. The record length is 25 inches. 



46. — 12. 10. 31. 44. Immature frontlet and horns. Mishmi 

 HUls ; collected by Mr. ISTeedham. This specimen was 

 regarded by Mr. Hume as a female. 



THE SEROW, OR SARAO. 



Capeigornis sumateensis. 



Antilope sumatraensis, Bechstein, Ubersioht vierfiiss. Thiere, vol. i, 



p. 98, 1799. 

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

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) sumatrensis, Hamilton Smith, in Griffith's 



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

 Nsemorhaedus sumatrensis, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Nat. Libr., 



Mamm, vol. iv, p. 97, 1836. 

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



p. 272, 1846 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 314 ; 



Lydekker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 139, 1907 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 345, 1910. 

 Oapricornis sumatrensis, Ogilhy, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Gi-ay, 



List Mamm. Brit. Mus. pp. xxvi and 166, 1843. 

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



The identification of the Indian and Burmese serows with 

 the Sumatran species was suggested by the present writer in 

 1900, this view being provisionally adopted {Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1908, p. 175) but subsequently abandoned {Ihid, 1910, p. 855) 

 by Mr. Pocock. 



A.— Himalayan, or Nepal, Serow. 

 Caprieornis sumatrensis bubalinus. 



Antilope thar, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, vol. iii, p. 324, 1831, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 105. 

 Antilope bubalina, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 12. 

 Antilope (Nemorhedus) thar, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 86. 

 Caprioornis thar, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 138 ; Pocock, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. i, p. 187, 1908, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1910, p. 855. 

 Caprioornis bubalina. Gray, List., Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 166, 1843, 



Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. Ill, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 20, 1872. 

 Nemorhsedus bubalinus, Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamin. 



p. 513, 1891. 



