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THE ANTELOPES OF SOMALI-LAND. 



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to associate the head and the flat skins with the skull previously 

 described by Brooke, and thus, for the first time, to give some 

 account of the external form of this Antelope. The skins, as I 

 pointed out,3 are at once recognisable by the very wide and well- 

 marked dark brown dorsal line, which measures seven or eight inches 

 across the back in its widest part, and stands out in strong contrast 

 to the lighter rufous of the sides. Waller's Gazelle, however, is still 

 more noticeable externally on account of its long thin neck, which, as 



Fig. I. — Waller's Gazelle, Litkoctanius walleri (Proc. Zool, Soc.,'1892, p. loi). 



Mr. Lort PhiUips has stated,-* has considerable resemblance to that 

 of a Giraffe. This peculiar feature is well shown in the mounted 

 specimens of this Antelope lately placed in the Gallery of the 

 British Museum, from one of which the accompanying drawing 

 (Fig. i) has been taken. 



In 1886, Herr Kohl, in an article upon "new or rare Antelopes 

 in the Natural History Museum of Vienna," proposed to elevate 



^ Proc. Zoul. Sue, 1884, pi. xlix., tig. i. 



^ Pivc. Zoul. Soc. 1SS5, p. 931. 

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