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of Africa, p. 278, 1908 ; de Poncins, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 377, 1899 ; Rothschild, Powell-Cotton'' s Sporting Trip 

 through Abyssinia, p. 474, 1902 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, 

 p. 878. 



Dorcatragus megalotis, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 949, 1894 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 169, 1910; Dnike- 

 BrocJtman, Mamm. of Somali, p. 65, 1910. 



BEIRA, or BAIRA. 



Typical locality Somaliland, to which country, together 

 with part of Abyssinia, the species is confined. 



Size approximately that of a grysbok ; shoulder-height 

 about 20 inches. General colour purplish grey grizzled with 



FIG. 22. FRONT AND SIDE VIEWS OF SKULL AND HORNS OF 

 THE BEIRA (Dorcotragus megalotis). 



white, which forms the extreme tips of the hairs ; a narrow 

 dark flank-band separating the grey area from the yellowish 

 or orange fawn of under- parts, which extends on to outer 

 surfaces of thighs and upper part of legs, the remainder of 

 the latter being darker fulvous ; head bright fulvous, in 



