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During my stav at Koon Tan a fine specimen was brought to Mr. Eisenhoeer\s 

 bungalow. The legs up to the knee joints were decidedly rufous. Another specimen 

 shot at the same locality was of the same colonr throughout but the horns were different 

 and verv short. Unfortunately I did not examine these two animals properly as the 

 lack of literature made this impossible. However, I hope these specimens and perhaps 

 some more collected at the same locality will reach Europé as soon as the war is över, 

 and in a låter paper I hope to be able to solve the question about the Serows of Siarn. 



In the Siamese Malaya, »Serows seems to be fairly common in the precipitous Ii me- 

 st one mountains near the coast. South of Koh Lak T once had arranged a drive in pur- 

 suit of serows and sambars. Unfortunately I myself did not see anything at all, but the 

 Siamese official standing next to me fired a shot at a serow though he missed it. Accord- 

 ing both to him and some of the beaters, who had seen the animal, it was blackish in co- 

 louration without any rufous at all. This statement seems to indicate that it apparently 

 was an animal of the same type as that one recorded b} r Irwin from Koh Lak. 



Outside the mountain locally known as Sam Roi Yot 011 about Lat. N. 12° 10' 

 the small island of Koh Koräm is situated. This island is said to be mhabited by serows 

 which are stated to be quite easy to get. Unfortunately I was down in the Siamese Ma- 

 laya during the monsoon time, when it was quite impossible to get out or land on that 

 island and I therefore had to abandon my plans to get one of these fine goats. 



Bos bubalus. Linn. 



So-called »wild» Water-buffaloes are said to occur in the districts westwards from 

 the town of Raheng as communicated by Mr. G. F. W. Elwes who told me that he had 

 shot some specimens there. As I ha ve already stated in my former paper on the subject 

 1 do not consider them as realfy wild. They have most certainly once been domesticated 

 though they have by some reason escaped from captivity and then run wild. 



On the low-lying country at the neighbourhood of the mountain known as Sam 

 Roi Yot (= the mountain with the three hundred peaks) »wild» Water-buffaloes are 

 also said to occur as communicated by Mr. A. J. Irwin. These animals were stated 

 as being very fierce and even dangerous to the natives. 



Bos gaurus readi. Lydekker. 



Plate I. Fig. 3. 



The Seladang or Bison, as it is generally called by the European sportsmen in the 

 Far East, is generally distributed över the whole country except on the Menam plain. 

 They generally keep to the lower hills, but they do not avoid even the higher mountains. 



When the rainy season begins they sometimes ascendto the plains to feed on the 

 fresh sprouting grass. £ : 



Among the Koon Tan mountains they seemed to be fairly common to count from 

 the numerous tracks met with during my excursions in that neighbourhood. Since my 

 departure from Koon Tan two specimens, a bull and a cow, were shot by a couple of na- 



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