462 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



alono- the front they measure nearly an inch more. The longest 

 doe's horns were 9 inches in a straight line, and 2-§ inches round the 

 base. This, however, I think is unusually long, 7^ inches being 

 about the usual size. The horns of the female are slightly ringed 

 for about two-thirds of their length. Gazella naso is found close to 

 Berbera, and is common both near the coast and on the plateau. 

 Mr. Phillips, in the P. Z. S. of 1885, p. 930, says the plateau 

 gazelle seemed to him to differ from the one in the plains, being 

 lighter and wanting the black mark along the side. I think they 

 are exactly the same ; I saw no difference in colour. The one photo- 

 graphed was shot on the plateau and has a broad black stripe along 

 the side. On referring to two other photographs of doe gazelles shot 

 on the plateau, I find one has a black stripe and the other has not ; 

 another of a buck shot within sight of Berbera, shows the black side 

 mark. According to the P. Z. S„ 1891, p. 210, there seems to have 

 been a good deal of confusion about this gazelle, as it turns out to be 

 the gazelle originally named Gazella speekii. All the gazelles I got on 

 the plain near Berbera had the loose pouch of skin on the nose, and I 

 saw none of the species without the pouch said to inhabit the Berbera 

 plain identified in the P. Z. S. of 1891, p. 211, as Gazella pekehii. 

 However, I only marched straight through the Berbera plain and did 

 not spend any time on it. 



Neotrafius -y>. 

 Is a small antelope 9 inches high at] the shoulder. It goes in 

 pairs, and is found everywhere in the desert. It is too small to shoot 

 with the rifle. On the forehead is a crest of long chestnut hair ; the 

 general colour of the body is grey ; the skins vary a good deal in 

 colour ; some have a good deal of light-brown in them, while others 

 are almost entirely silvery-grey ; the legs are a light-brown on the 

 outer sides, the inside of legs and belly whitish. The muzzle pro- 

 trudes beyond the mouth. The female has no horns, and her crest is 

 smaller than that of the male. The horns of the male are short, 

 upright spikes, usually under 3 inches in length. The best pair I 

 have out of 18 heads is just under 3 inches long. The lower half of 

 the horns are marked by strong irregular sub-reticulated annulations. 

 Some horns grow parallel to each other ; in other cases they 

 grow slightly towards each other, and then diverge again 



