Inorganic selenium, as Na275Se03, was given intraruminally to lactating ewes, and for 48 hr afterwards samples of blood and milk were taken regularly. The animals were then slaughtered and tissues taken for further analysis. Evidence is presented, based on isolation techniques using Sephadex chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography, that 75Se is incorporated into milk proteins as selenomethionine_ It is estimated that at least 3% of the selenium that enters the milk, from this inorganic source, is present as bound selenomethionine. This is a minimal value, since it has been shown that selenomethionine is easily degraded during a number of the isolation procedures.The steps followed in arriving at the conclusion were: (1) a large proportion of the 75Se activity in the milk was non-dialysable; (2) activity emerges with the milk protein on Sephadex and can be recovered as "soluble casein" by precipitation with ammonium sulphate; (3) Pronase digestion of the labelled protein produces fragments that behave like methionine and cysteine in column chromatography; and (4) gas-liquid chromatography, including collection of the effluent in fractions, has enabled positive identification of a [75SeJselenomethionine peak_Other selenoamino acid-like fractions are present but have not yet been identified.