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now retired further into the interior, but still appear to be one of the 

 commonest of the Somali Antelopes, especially in the district of 

 Bulhar, which Hes to the west of Berbera, 



We will now turn from the Gazelles to the Bubaline or Cow- 

 like Antelopes, readily distinguishable by their long bovine heads, of 

 which two remarkable new species have lately been discovered in 

 Somali-land. 



That an Antelope allied to the Hartebeest of the Cape, and 

 commonly known to the hunters by that name, occurred in Somali- 



FiG. 3. — Swayne's Bubal, Bubalii swayiiei (Froc. Zool. Soc, 1892, p. 99). 



land and the adjoining districts, I have long been aware, but I 

 have only recently succeeded in obtaining specimens of it, and 

 sufficient information to warrant the bestowal upon it of a distinct 

 name. Swayne's Bubal, 9 Bubalis swaynei, as I have proposed to call 

 it, is, in regard to the shape of its horns, as will be seen from our 

 figure, perfectly distinct from the Hartebeest of the Cape {B. caama), 

 and, in fact, more nearly allied to the Tora {B. tova) of Upper Nubia, 

 and to Coke's Hartebeest {B. cokei) of British and German East 

 Africa, being in some respects intermediate between these two 

 species. 



9 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1892, p. 99, pi. V. 



