62 ON A SEROW FROM ANNAM. 



Capricomis rocherianus, Heucle. Along Bay, Tonkin, S. W. 

 China. 



To come now to a description of the Serow from Annam, 

 secured by Messrs. Choehod and Saint-Poulof : 



Male ; not quite adult, as the condition of the skull shows ; coat 

 shaggy ; hair coarse : mane well developed. Colour : fore head, from 

 nose to base of horns, rufous ; cheeks black ; from behind the eyes to 

 base of ears, rusty ; back of ears, rusty ; inside of ears, white ; upper 

 lip, white; under lip, white, enclosing below a median patch of 

 black ; beard, white ; throat and breast, black ; mane long, composed 

 of two sorts of hair : some entirely white, the others, more numer- 

 ous, white at the base, black distally ; belly black, behind with a few 

 grey hair; sides of back with hair white at the base, black distally, 

 producing together a greyish effect; forelegs, black down to the 

 knees, except for a rusty patch at the inside; below knees, rusty, 

 darker in front than behind; hind legs, black down to the hocks, 

 without any grey ; below the hocks, rusty brown ; tail, black above, 

 white beneath. 



Its measurements, taken immediately after death, were : height 

 at the shoulder 821 mm. ; total length from between the horns to 

 the tip of the tail 1300 man.; ears 220 mm.; horns 170 mm.; tail 

 110 mm. 



Pocock, in P. Z. S. 1908, p. 189, gives the measurements of the 

 skulls of four different forms of Serow (Capricomis sumatraensis) 

 from Kashmir, Nepal, Chamba (Western Himalayas) and Selangor 

 respectively, and to allow a ready comparison with the skulls of the 

 Serow from Annam and of the above mentioned Serow from Suma- 

 tra, presented by Messrs. Jansen and Brooks, I reprint herewith his 

 table, adding the measurements of the two latter Serows. The 

 Suma tran skull, unfortunately, was partly broken, so that two of 

 the measurements could not be taken. It was that of an old male. 



The table shows that the Annamite form approaches in its 

 skull measurements nearest the Serow from Chamba, Capricomis 

 sumatraensis sub-sp. rodoni, Pocock, yet differing from it by being 

 narrower across the premaxilhe, zygomata and the posterior portion 

 of the palate, by its longer, but narrower nasals, and by its greater 

 height at the frontals. The Sumatran skull has in most respects 

 the smallest dimensions, with the exception of the palate which an- 

 teriorly is extraordinarily wide. Naturally, a much larger series 

 of skulls would be necessary to arriv r e at safe conclusions. 



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