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12-14. He says : " It is seldom found in herds, however small, and 

 the grown males usually live entirely alone, except in the breeding 

 season. Of all the Deers or Antelopes of these hills (viz : in Nepal) 

 it is the most common. It tenants the central region equidistant 

 from the snows on the one hand, and the plains of- India on the 

 other." This Antelope has now to be called Capricornis sumatra- 

 ensis sub-sp. thar Hodgson (see Pocock, P. Z. S. 1908, p. 176). 



The first record of a Serow inhabiting the Malay Peninsula is, 

 as is to be expected, by Theodore Cantor, in his " Catalogue of 

 Mammals inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands," original- 

 ly published in the Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XV 

 (1846), p. 2T2, and subsequently reprinted in "Miscellaneous 

 Papers relating to Indo-China," ser. 1, Vol. II (1886), p. 57. 

 However, his remarks are disappointingly meagre. He merely 

 says : " It appears to be numerous on the Malayan Peninsula, but 

 exceedingly difficult to obtain, as it frequents the steepest hilly 

 localities, and is very shy and active." This Malay Peninsular 

 Serow which is now well-known, is, if not identical with, so at 

 least closely allied to, the Sumatran form, and two geographical 

 races of it have been described, viz : Capricornis sumatraensis swet- 

 tenliami, Butler and Capricornis sumatraensis robinsoni, Pocock. 

 These, together with five other sub-species, are discussed by Pocock, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1908, pp. 173-190. 



The Baffles Museum possesses two pairs of horns of this animal, 

 one from Tanjong Pambutan, Perak, and the other from Chankat 

 Manclai, Ulu Kinta, both presented by Mr. E. M. Schwabe in 1905, 

 and the sportsman will find in George Maxwell's '" In Malay 

 Forests " full directions as how to obtain this elusive " Wild Groat " 

 or at least to get within a mile of it! (see pp. 167-185). Locally it 

 is known as " Kambing gerun," besides as " Kambing utan," the 

 name recorded by Marsden. 



Further species of Serow were recorded from other parts of 

 South-Eastern Asia, from Kashmir, the Himalayas, China, Tonkin 

 and Burmah, Father Heude especially distinguishing himself by 

 describing no less than 24 species from China and Tonkin alone 

 which in the eighties and nineties of last century he with the help 

 of numerous other Catholic Missionaries had collected. The 

 specimens were deposited in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai. 

 Sowerby (P. Z. S. 1917 pp. 7-26) undertook the trouble of working 

 through this vast collection and succeeded in reducing Heude's 24 

 species and David's one species to the following : 



Capricornis argvrocliwtes, Heude. The Province of Chekiang, S. 

 E. China. 



„ vidiamis, Heude. The region of N". E. Ssuchuan and 



S. Shensi, Central China. 



„ milne-edwardsi, David. W. Ssuchuan, N. W. Ssu- 



chuan and S. W. Kansu, W. China. 



„ collasinus, Heude. Kuang-tung Province, S. China. 



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