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the structure of the feet, horns, and tail the genus is less 

 gazelline than Lithocranius." 



AMMODORCAS CLARKE I. 



Cervicapra clarkei, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. vii, 

 p. 304, 1891. 



Ammodorcas clarkei, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 207, pis. xxi 

 and xxii ; Sclater, ibid. 1892, pp. 101 and 118 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, p. 128, 1892, ed. 6, p. 277, 1910, ed. 7, p. 244, 1914 ; 

 LydekJcer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 240, 1893, Great and Small Game 

 of Africa, p. 368, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 271, 1908; 

 Swayne, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 318, Seventeen Trips to 

 Somaliland, p. 310, 1895 ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulikan, p. 181, 1895 ; 

 Elliot, Zool. Publ. Field Mus. vol. i, p. 124, 1897, Cat. Mamm. 

 Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. viii) p. 79, 1907 ; Sclater 

 and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 219, pi. Ixxiii, 1898 ; 

 Clarice, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 368, 1899 ; Pocock, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 917 ; Dralce-BrocJcman, Mammals of 

 Somali, p. 83, 1910. 



DlBATAG. 



Typical locality, Buroa Wells, East Central Somaliland. 



Shoulder-height about 31 inches. General colour dark 

 purplish rufous or cinnamon ; face with a pair of gazelle-like 

 white streaks, continuous posteriorly with a whitish area 

 round eyes and ears, median dark streak rich fulvous 

 rufous, lateral dark facial streaks ill-defined ; backs of ears 

 dull whitish; chin and under surface of jaw, under-parts, 

 backs of hams, and inner sides of upper portion of limbs 

 white ; shanks fulvous ; tail, which has a small tuft, blackish 

 above and below. Basal length of skull 7J inches. Good 

 horns measure from 11 to about 12 J (in one instance 13) 

 inches in length, with a girth of from 4 to 5J, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval of from 2J to 5 inches. 



91. 5. 7. 1. Skull, with horns, and .head-skin, Buroa 

 Wells, East Central Somaliland. Type. 



Presented ly T. W. H. Clarke, Esq., 1891. 



91. 12. 19. 4. Skin, mounted, and skull. Habr-Tojal, 

 near Buroa Wells. Same history. 



91. 12. 19. 5. Skull, with horns, and skin (in bad 

 condition). Same locality. Same history. 



91. 12. 19. 6-7. Two skulls and skins (in bad condition), 

 female. Same locality. Same history. 



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