80 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



XX. GAZELLA SPEKEI. 



Gazella spekei, Blytli, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 172, 

 1863; Blanford, Zool. Abyssinia, p. 261, pi. i, fig. 5, 1870; 

 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 543 ; Kohl, Ann. Hofmiis. 

 Wien, vol. i, p. 77, pi. iii, 1886 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, 

 p. 210 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 158, 

 1891 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, pp. 100 and 118, 1897, 

 p. 290; Swayne,ibid.l892,Tp. 306, Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, 

 p. 316, 1895 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 112, 1892, ed. 6, 

 p. 254, 1910, ed. 7, p. 253, 1914 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 234, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899, Gaine 

 Animals of Africa, p. 251, 1908 ; Hoyos. Zu den Aulihan, p. 179, 

 pi. X, fig. 3, 1895 ; Elliot, Field Mits. Zool. Pub. vol. i, p. 120, 

 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 125, 

 pi. Ixi, 1898 ; Rothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sjjorting Trip through 

 Abyssinia, p. 473, 1902; Drake-Brockman, Mamm. of Somali. 

 p. 75, 1910. 



Gazella naso, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 504, pi. ii, James' 

 Unknoivn Horii of Africa, p. 268, pi. iii, 1888. 



Gacella spekei, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 77, 1907. 



Dhero (Somali). 



Typical locality plateau of interior of Somaliland. 



Type in Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Nearly allied to last, but rather smaller ; slioulder-heiglit 

 about 23 to 24 inches. Horns more curved backwards, less 

 evenly divergent and more incurved at tips, general colour 

 pale brownish fawn ; forehead and median face-stripe 

 brownish fawn ; a distinct blackish nose-patch, in front of 

 which is a puffy inflatable elevation on muzzle ; lateral dark 

 face-stripes narrow and indistinct; ears long and narrow, 

 whitish fawn behind ; flank-band dark blackish brown, 

 ill-defined; pygal band indistinct. Skull wath short broad 

 nasals, barely articulating with premaxill?e ; basal length 6^, 

 maximum width 3|, length from muzzle to orbit 3f inches. 

 Horns measure from lOf to 11 1 inches in length, with a 

 girth of from 3^ to 4^, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 2f 

 to 5^ inches. 



The nose-hump is frequently stated to be restricted to 

 males, but this is not the case. 



85. 11. 16. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Gerbatir, 

 Somaliland ; collected by Herr G. Menges. 



Purchased {Gerrard), 1885. 



