I awaited the coming of the serow at various coigns of vantage where they said it was bound to pass, while the four men surrounded it from different directions.
When disturbed, the serow utters a most singular sound, something between a snort and a screaming whistle, and I have heard them screaming loudly when they had apparently not been alarmed.
The serow has an awkward gait; but in spite of this it can go over the worst ground; and it has, perhaps, no superior in going down steep hills.
It is said that the serow will sometimes beat off a pack of wild dogs, and I believe that serow and dogs have been found lying dead together.
Although very shy and difficult to find, the serow is a fierce and dangerous brute when wounded and brought to bay.
This differs from the Indian serow by the uniform blackish brown of the upper parts, tending to ferruginous on the thighs, and the red colour in place of the grey on the lower parts of the legs.
It is pretty generally distributed along the whole of the lower slopes of the Himalayas from the Indus river to the Kachin hills in Burmah; horns of both gooral and serow were found by the Phunkan column in 1889.
The serow seems, like sambur, to be nocturnal in its habits, and its discordant scream is often to be heard after dark in Gurwhal, where it is comparatively plentiful.
Major Greenaway saw three serowin one day, in the Sindh Valley in 1871, two of them together, and one alone, and got shots at all of them, but only bagged one.
Besides being scarce, serow are uncommonly wary, and are said by natives to travel for miles if disturbed.
That winter gave us an opportunity to see much of ancient China, for we visited Shantung, traveled straight across the Provinces of Honan and Hupeh, and wandered about the mountains of Che-kiang on a serow hunt.
Fritz had never seen a serow before, but taking it for granted it was fair game, he sprang at the creature on sight.
A second time the serow appeared crossing the open tract, and the dogs, as before, close at his heels.
There were many of them that knew the serow well, and trembled at the sight of his horns when brought too close to them.
It was just the sort of place which the serow was looking out for; and making a sharp rush for the tree, he entered one of these divisions, and wheeling around, buttocks to the stump, stood firmly to bay.
The serow seemed now to be quite done up, and it appeared as if his pursuers might at any moment have pulled him down.
Hence it was that the shikarree was so delighted, when he saw the old serow dealing death among his canine antagonists.
The game, but for its hide, was hardly worth faking home; as the flesh of the serow is very coarse, and poor eating.
We left Hui-yao the day after I killed the serow for a village called Wa-tien where there was a report of sambur.
When we reached the stream it was only to find a flat wall against which the water surged in a mass of white foam, separating us from the place where the serow had fallen.
The first serow was killed by Hotenfa's party on our third day in the temple.
We worked hard for serow but the men were hopeless and it was impossible to "still hunt" the animals at that time of the year.
The Lolos killed a fine serow on the first day and Hotenfa brought in a young goral a short time later, but big game was by no means abundant.
The men wove a swinging ladder from tough vines, climbed down it, and drew theserow bodily up the cliff; as it weighed nearly three hundred pounds this was by no means an easy undertaking.
Mr. Caldwell purchased for us in the market the skin of a splendid female serow and a short time later obtained a young male.
On the morning following the capture of the first serow the last rain of the season began and continued for nine days almost without ceasing.
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