1901.] ON THE ATMTELOPES or SOMALILAND AND S. ADYSSIINIA. -499 



3. Field-notes ou tlie Antelopes obtained during a Journey 

 in Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia in 1900-1901. 

 By Alfred E, Pease, M.P., F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived July 8, 1901.] 



BuBALis swAYNEi. Swajne's Harfcebeest. 



Galla name, Xorhi. Abyssinian name, Oedempsa or Gedemfsa. 

 Somali name, Sieg. 



I was rather surprised to find Swayne's Hartebeest on the west 

 side of the Hawash Eiver : v\ e saw them between the Hawash and 

 Awaramulka. Major Gvvynn, E.E., D.S.O., killed one on the 

 march near the Hawash, and I saw them in the foothills and bush 

 near Tadijunulka, but did not shoot any. I was, however, still 

 more astonished to find them on the Upper Hawash, west of 

 Sequala, also south of the Guerague range (Gifursa), and in the 

 neighbourhood of the Meki River and Lake Zwai, where they 

 were numerous. I shot two bulls, one near Bogra and one near 

 Aila (Upper Hawash, west of Sequala). The better head was 

 15i in. long, 10 in. in circ, and 17 1 from tip to tip. One of these 

 I lulled whilst it was being closely pm'sued by a Serval, which 

 I also shot. It is remarkable that so small an animal as the Serval 

 should attack a liai-tbeest. 



Cephalophus sp. inc. Duiker. 



Abyssinian name, Midakiva. 



The only specimen I obtained of this was a female, caught 

 by some Gallas on Mt. Sequala and brought to our camp in 

 January. It was quite small, about 20 days old, and had been for 

 10 days nursed at the breast of the Galla woman that brought it 

 to me. In colour it resembled the grizzly grey of a young 

 Klipspringer, but not in the texture oP its coat : it was decidedly 

 dark in colour, with tan round the ears, eyes, and muzzle, and a 

 very dark band from the poll to the nose, and similar bands down 

 the fore legs. It was perfectly tame, and we kept it in health till 

 the end of March. It throve well on small quantities of bread and 

 biscuit with goat's milk, but would eat if it got the chance any 

 kind of food (except meat) ; it ate grass very sparingly, but would 

 eat dry leaves, twigs, bits of bark, and the stalks and leaves of 

 certain plants and bushes, but when this diet failed, as it did in 

 Somaliland, it ate too much bread and plum-pudding one day and 

 died.. It was such a bereavement to Mrs. Pease, that we had not 

 the heart to skin it, and buried it. I saw many other Duikers at 

 various times, but only springing in and out of the thick jungle, 

 giving no chance for a rifle. I never liad one in sight for half a 

 second. I met with them on the Entoto Hills, Sequala, &c. ; I 

 also saw them on the hills at the base of Assobot Mountain in the 

 Danakil Country. 



