80 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



XX. GAZELLA SPEKET. 



Gazella spekei, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 172, 

 1863; Blanford, Zool. Abyssinia, p. 261, pi. i, fig. 5, 1870; 

 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 543 ; Kohl, Ann. Hofmus. 

 Wien, vol. i, p. 77, pL iii, 1886 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, 

 p. 210 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 158, 

 1891 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, pp. 100 and 118, 1897, 

 p. 290; Swayne,ibid. 1892, p. 306, Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, 

 p. 316, 1895 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 112, 1892, ed. 6, 

 p. 254, 1910, ed. 7, p. 253, 1914 ; LydeJcJcer, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 234, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 251, 1908 ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulihan, p. 179, 

 pi. x, fig. 3, 1895 ; Elliot, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. i, p. 120, 

 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 125, 

 pi. Ixi, 1898 ; Rothschild, Powell-Cotton 1 s Sporting Trip through 

 Abyssinia, p. 473, 1902 ; Drake-Brockman, Mamm. of Somali. 

 p. 75, 1910. 



Gazella naso, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 504, pi. ii, James* 

 Unknown Horn of Africa, p. 268, pi. iii, 1888. 



Gacella spekei, Elliot, Cat. Mamm.. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 77, 1907. 



DHERO (Somali). 



Typical locality plateau of interior of Somaliland. 



Type in Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Nearly allied to last, but rather smaller ; shoulder-height 

 about 23 to 24 inches. Horns more curved backwards, less 

 evenly divergent and more incurved at tips, general colour 

 pale brownish fawn ; forehead and median face-stripe 

 brownish fawn; a distinct blackish nose-patch, in front of 

 which is a puffy inflatable elevation on muzzle ; lateral dark 

 face-stripes narrow and indistinct; ears long and narrow, 

 whitish fawn behind ; flank-band dark blackish brown, 

 ill-defined ; pygal band indistinct. Skull with short broad 

 nasals, barely articulating with premaxillae ; basal length 6J, 

 maximum width 3f, length from muzzle to orbit 3f inches. 

 Horns measure from lOf to 11 1 inches in length, with a 

 girth of from 3J to 4J, and a tip- to- tip interval of from 2f 

 to 5J inches. 



The nose-hump is frequently stated to be restricted to 

 males, but this is not the case. 



85. 11. 16. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Gerbatir, 

 Somaliland ; collected by Herr G. Menges. 



Purchased (Gerrard), 1885. 



