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out the Nogal Valley and the Haud to within a few miles of Obbia 

 on the east coast, Milmil [Ethiopia] in the west, and the Webi 

 Shebeleh in the south" (Drake-Brockman, 1910, p. 84). 



Lydekker and Blaine (1914, vol. 3, p. 4) record two specimens 

 from "Darror Wells, Somali Haud" (now in Ethiopia) . 



In 1915 Zammarano (1919) found small numbers on the left bank 

 of the Webi Shebeli in the vicinity of latitude 4 N. 



"The Dibatag ... is only found in the far interior, in a cir- 

 cumscribed area, the greater part of which for years was in the 

 hands of the Mullah and his dervishes. . . . 



"Its sole habitat is in a waterless area in the heart of the Ogadan 

 and Dulbahanta country in the very centre of Somaliland, and it 

 appears to have a predilection for the Nogal valley." (Drake- 

 Brockman, in Maydon, 1932, pp. 246-247.) 



De Beaux (1935, p. 13) considers the Dibatag everywhere local- 

 ized and rare, certainly very rare in Italian Somaliland. Among the 

 localities he mentions are the vicinity of Bulo Burti on the left bank 

 of the Webi Shebeli and the Candala Mountains in northern Somali- 

 land. 



"Those I saw ranged from B.P. 79 to B.P. 96 [west of Bohotleh 

 in British Somaliland, close to the Ethiopian boundary]. ... I 

 saw one herd of fifteen adults of both sexes." It is probably more 

 abundant than the Gerenuk. (Turner, 1937, p. 59.) 



The species is placed in Class B by the London Convention of 

 1933. 



Saiga 



SAIGA TATARICA (Linnaeus) 



Copra tatarica Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 97, 1766. ("In summa 

 Asia"; type locality restricted by Lydekker and Blaine (1914, vol. 3, p. 15) 

 to "Ural Steppes.") 



FIGS.: Schreber, Saugthiere, pi. 276, 1782; Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiatica, 

 Icones, 1834-42; Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1867, pi. 17; Royal Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 2, p. 298, fig., 1894; Sclater and Thomas, 1897, vol. 3, pi. 49, pp. 35, 

 40, figs. 49, 51; Lydekker, 1901, pi. 2, fig. 8, p. 189, fig. 43; Elliott, 1907, 

 p. 73, fig. 15; Carruthers, 1913, vol. 2, pi. facing p. 596; Lydekker and 

 Blaine, 1914, vol. 3, p. 15, fig. 3; Morden, 1930, p. 542, fig.; Ward, 1935, 

 p. 148, fig.; Leister, 1938, p. 82, fig. 



The demands of the Chinese pharmaceutical trade have set a price 

 upon the head (or rather the horns) of this odd inhabitant of the 

 Asiatic steppes, and its ranks have been decimated accordingly. 



"Horns (absent in females) of medium length, . . . somewhat 

 irregularly lyrate, heavily ridged, and . . . amber-coloured or whit- 

 ish; tail short; nose inflated and prolonged into a kind of down- 

 wardly bent proboscis, with the nostrils opening downwards .... 



