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minutes and finally walk right up to her, before she made up her 
mind to jump to her feet and scamper off for dear life after her com- 
panion. 
Baira are to my mind the most difficult to approach of all the Somali . 
antelope, racing away for all they are worth the moment they are disturbed 
by man or beast—so different from the Bottle-nosed Gazelles which haunt 
the same plateaux, and which on this occasion I found in greater numbers 
and more confiding than I have ever seen them before: owing no doubt to 
the fact that on these barren-looking expanses of black shingle, they are 
very seldom disturbed by the hunter, 
The Plate of the Baira or “ Beira,’ (as the authors spell te word) in the 
the “ Book of SOD ” seems to me to be quite perfect, both in shape and 
colouring. 
Two more forms complete the Antelopine group, as represented in Somali- 
land, namely the Klipspringer ; and the Digdig, in three varieties. 
OREOTRAGUS SALTATOR (The Klipspringer). 
I have litile to add to what has already been recorded about this beautiful 
little creature—“ Alakud,’ as the Somalis call him. He is not much shot, 
and therefore has not perceptibly decreased in numbers. Wherever you find 
the Larger Koodoo, there you may expect the Klipspringer ; he also inhabits 
the precipitous sides of the same tablelands which form the favourite 
haunt of the Baira ; but, unlike that species, confines himself entirely to the 
ateepest slopes, whereon he loves to skip from crag to crag in the most 
break-neck fashion possible : I have never seen him take to the flat under 
any circumstances, 
MADOQUA PHILLIPSI, 
MADOQUA SWAYNEI., 
Mapoqua GUNTHERI. 
Thus are the three varieties of the Sand Antelope or Digdig designated by 
zoologists ; Somalis distinguish them by the names “ Goyu,” “ Golass,” and 
“ Gussli,” respectively. Captain Swayne has given an accurate description 
of them all, upon which I cannot improve, They are excellent eating and 
very plentiful, and consequently nearly every sportsman shoots a goodly 
number of them, but to the majority they are all ‘‘ Digdig” simply, and as 
such are only looked upon as pleasant additions to the often monotonous bill- 
of-fare, There is still, however, a good deal to be done in the way of deter- 
mining the limits of the distribution of each of the three varieties, and in this 
travellers could materially assist by keeping the skins and skulls of those 
shot, and carefully ticketing them with a brief note of the sex, date and 
locality, We obtained specimens of all three varieties between Berbera 
and Milmil, the first and second overlapping in one locality and the 
second and third in another, = cannot recall the name of the camping- 
place in the former case, and have not present access to the skins for 
