. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . - and forms a large greyish crest onthe withers. The general colour of the body is black intermixedwith brown and there is no white or dirty white in the chest,belly or inside of the legs. The legs are blackish brown, the fet-locks being rather browner than the upper parts, but there is noabrupt change of colours at the knees and hocks. Subspecies rohinsoni, Pocock. Gapricornis sumatraensis rohinsoni, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc,1908, p. 185, text fig. 35, (living animal), 36 (skull). Closely related to the typical Sumatran race, but differing appa
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . - and forms a large greyish crest onthe withers. The general colour of the body is black intermixedwith brown and there is no white or dirty white in the chest,belly or inside of the legs. The legs are blackish brown, the fet-locks being rather browner than the upper parts, but there is noabrupt change of colours at the knees and hocks. Subspecies rohinsoni, Pocock. Gapricornis sumatraensis rohinsoni, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc,1908, p. 185, text fig. 35, (living animal), 36 (skull). Closely related to the typical Sumatran race, but differing appa-rently in that the mane is crest-like instead of mat- like and com-posed of a mixture of black and white hairs. Distribution.—Selangor and ? Perak in the Malay Peninsula. This race of Serows was based upon the skin and skull of anexample presented to the Zoological Society by the Government ^een Chromo lith. SEROWS FROM BURMA AND MALACCA. 1. sumatraensis rubidios. 2 . Capricorrda sumatraensis rotinsoni. THE SERO WS, GORALS AND TAKINS OF BRITISH INDIA. 803 of Selangor. The animal was actually captured near Batu on theCoast of Selangor; but according to Mr. H. C. Robinson, it musthave wandered thither either from the range of hills betweenSelangor and Negri Sembilan to the south of it, or possibl}^ fromthe main range of the Malay Peninsula. In 1908 a second specimen was forwarded to the Society by Mr,Robinsons Assistant, Mr. Boden Kloss. This resembled in colourthe first example from Selangor. It was said, nevertheless, to havebeen captured in Perak. It was to this specimen that belonged theskull, mentioned above, as differing in certain particulars from theskull of the type of rohinsoni. Subspecies : swettenhami, Butler. ? JSfemorhcedus sumcdrensis, Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal XV.,pp. 272-278, 1846. Nemorlimdus sivettenhami, Butler,Proc. Zool.
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