WOTES ON SOMALILAND, 495 
I shall vefer to them here by the names by which they seem familiarly 
known among sportsmen, viz., the “ Bottle-nosed” and the ‘“ Lowland,” 
respectively, Lafarook, about “40 miles from Berbara, on the way to the 
Jerato Pass, is approximately the point at which the Lowland variety ceases 
to be met with and the range of the other begins; in fact, while encamped 
near the wells of that name we found the two kinds indiscriminately. On 
the isolated plateaux in the neighbourhood, I saw the Bottle-nosed in great 
numbers when hunting Baira, while at the foot the Lowland species was 
predominant, On one occasion, when stalking some Baira,I came across a 
herd of at least 40 of the former, including some very fine heads, and they 
allowed me to come quite close up to them, but I was too anxious about the 
rarer antelope at the time to fire at any of them. - 
The marked difference in the appearance of females of the two varieties 
has not, I think, been sufficiently explained and drawn attention to in 
books on the subject. Their horns are altogether unlike. In the case 
of the Lowland Gazelle the does’ horns are very thin and smooth 
and much straighter than the bucks’, and asa rule hardly show at all 
in life, being hidden by the ears ; whereas, in the case of the Bottle-nosed, 
the females’ horns are exactly like the males, only slightly less massive ; 
in fact, among a herd in the field, I defy anybody, without a prolonged 
use of the field-glasses, to sistinguish a buck with medium-sized horns, from 
a doe. 
SOEMMERING’S GAZELLE (Gazella soemmeringiz). 
“ Aoul,” as they are commonly called, are still plentiful in the Bulhar 
Plain, and in flat country throughout the Protectorate. 
CLARKE’S GAZELLE or Dipatac (Ammordorcas clarke). 
WALLER’S GAZELLE or GERENUK (Lithocranius walleri), 
Barra ANTELOPE or BalRA (Dorcotragus megalotis). 
It so happens that Messrs, Sclater and Thomas ‘complete their monograph 
of all the known Gazelles with these three species of the Somali Fauna, and 
oddly enough each has been considered to constitute a distinct Genus. 
In this connection I take the liherty of quoting in eatenso the interesting 
remarks with which the Authors of this - delightful work preface their 
account of the Baira Antelope, They write :— 
“We will conclude the long series of Gazelles with three abnormal forms, 
“each constituting a genus of itself, which, curiously enough, are all restrict- 
‘‘ed to N.-E,. Africa, As regards the first two of them, there can be no 
“ question, we believe, of their close alliance to the Gazelles, Ammordorcas 
“being in several respeets intermediate between Gazella and Lithceranius, 
“and leading on to that most specialized form of the group. About the 
“correct position of the Baira, however, there is considerable doubt, and 
‘it is quite possible that a more natural place for it in the Antelopine series 
“may be hereafter discovered.” 
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