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GAME ANBIALS OF KASHMIR AND ADJACENT HILL PROVINCES. 
By 
Col. a. E. Ward. 
Fart IV. 
(With a map, plate and one text block.) 
GOAT ANTELOPES. 
No. 352.— SEROW. 
The “Ramu” of Kashmiris ; eastward named “ Yahmu” and then further the 
“ Kurt ” or even the “ Thar ” is the name used by the villagers. 
A few years ago very few serow were to be found in Kashmir, as they had 
been neaily exterminated by the villagers who, when the snow was deep, drove 
them with dogs. 
When disturbed the serow dashes wildly down hill, leaping from rock to rock 
wdth extraordinary agility, which is unlooked for in a heavy built animal ; it 
is thin habit which gives the dogs a great advantage, for it gets driven 
down to the bottom of the vaUey and is mobbed in the soft snow. Apart 
from the snow the serow is not a good traveller on the flat, where it seldom 
goes, for its home is amongst rocks and forest, where the undergrowth is not 
heavy. At times however it will penetrate into masses of ringal and hide. 
After a rainy night comes often a sunny morning, the serow then takes to 
some rocky ledge and lies in the sunshine, often alone but generally within 
reasonable distance of a companion. In country which is not disturbed and is 
well preserved, a pair of serow will settle down in a small area, and apparently 
seldom leave it. In the Kashmir Game Reserves it is easy to find a serow, but 
not always so easy to get at it. Two settled down amongst some cliffs which 
bordered the road or rather the riding path, for in the Kashmir Game Reserves 
there are no public roads. Over and over again these serow were seen, some- 
times they would stand but if within 200 or 300 yards they would move off. 
Last year these serow were over bold and were wiped out by a guest of the 
State, but their place has been taken by others, enticed possibly by the shelter 
of the overhanging rocks, the trickling water, the feeding and comparative 
seclusion. 
Measurement of Horns. 
Length. 
Girth. 
Tip to Tip. 
Name of Sportsman. 
Date. 
Remarks. 
9i" 
4i" 
Left horn brok- 
en. 
C. E. Grenville 
Gough. 
1920 
9i" 
5J" 
4Jt" 
K. C. Tarzetzhy 
1905 
Erin, Kashmir. 
9" 
5" 
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A. E. Ward 
1911 
Kashmir. 
CO 
Capt. Stockley 
1911 
Kistwar. (Owner's 
measurement.) 
8i" 
51// 
4r 
A. Lathinson 
1914 
Sind Falley. 
8|" 
R. S. L. Fowler 
1913 
Padar ,, 
00 
F. H. Hornsby 
1913 
Kistwar. 
8i" 
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R. N. Rashleigh 
1913 
Akahal, Sind. 
