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c?. L. 273. C. 102. Rings 19. 



5. L. 272. C. 98. Rings 17. 

 ?. L. 241. C. 70. 



Mr. Clarke's specimens prove the fact, unsuspected or forgotten 

 since 1856, that the original G. spekei of Blyth is the Flabby-nosed 

 Gazelle of the Somali plateau, and not the smooth-nosed one of the 

 lowlands near Berbera, to which tiie name has been applied by 

 Mr. Lort Phillips. The smooth-nosed one is that described by 

 Dr. Kohl as G.pelzelni (loc. infrd cit.), the horns of the latter brought 

 by Mr. Clarke agreeing absolutely with one of the specimens of 

 " G. spelcei" obtained by Mr. Lort PhilHps. 



Without entering into details, the identity of " G. naso " with 

 G. spekei is readily shown by the following extract from Lieut, 

 (afterwards Sir Richard) Burton's notes on 0. spekei given in Blyth's 

 description : — " as you may observe that there is an elevation of loose 

 replicated skin upon the nose." 



The mistake has arisen not unnaturally by supposing that at 

 Berbera Speke got the Berbera Gazelle (G. pelzelni), and there is 

 little in Blyth's own description and nothing in Mr. Blanford's figures 

 to have aroused a suspicion of the true state of the case. 



The horns of G. spekei are readily distinguishable from those of 

 G. pelzelni by their much greater curvature, those of the latter species 

 being almost as straight as those of G. thomsoni, Giinth., to which 

 in fact G. pelzelni is most nearly allied. The black nose-patch of 

 G. spekei affords also a ready mark of distinction from G. pelzelni, 

 in which the upper surface of the muzzle is quite uniformly coloured. 



Mr. Clarke says : — " The Gazelle heads were all shot beyond 

 Ragar and have the big nose. The straight-horned one [^G. pelzelni] 

 is the common one round Berbera, but when once you get on the 

 plateau, the big-nosed ones take their place. The two species are 

 very much alike in the body, but the horns of the Berbera one are 

 straight and it has no loose nose." 



6. Gazella pelzelni. Kohl. 



Gazella spekei, Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931 (nee Blyth). 

 G. pelzelni. Kohl, Ann. Mus. Wien, i. p. 76, pls.iii. & iv. (animal, 

 skull, and horns) (1886). 



a. d. L. 267. C. 9.5. Rings 17- 



b. c?. L. 297. C. 86. Rings 19. 



Specimen b has nearly an inch of rough but un-ringed horn at 

 the base below the large rings, showing that 19 rings are about as 

 many as this species ever develops. 



7. Oreotragus saltator, Bodd. 

 d . L. 9.5. 



8. Neotragus saltianus, De Blainv. 



cJ. Horns, 1. 70. 



All the North Somali Neotragi seem to belong to this, the Abys- 

 sinian species, and not to N. kirki, Giinth., the East-African form, 



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