1901.] SOMA.LILA:frD AND SOUTHERN ABYSSINIA. 501 



Cervicapea bohor. Reed-bucK'. 



Abyssinian name, Bohor or Behor. Somali name, Dol. Gralla 

 name, Bo7-oufa. 



I never observed any Reed-bucks till we got soutb of the Hawash 

 Eiver, though I noticed their tracks on the banks of the Hawash. 

 I saw Reed-bucks at Aila (N. of the Meki River), but did not shoot 

 one till I got to Lake Zwai, where they were numerous but never 

 more than two or three together. There were great numbers of 

 these Antelopes in the Hawash Valley at a place called Groraboiitha, 

 two days S.E. from Sequala, a very marshy country, with high grass 

 near the river and thick scrub inland. One evening I saw 23 in 

 one compact herd ; there were five bucks, and I killed the three 

 best. I shot one the following day on the march to the Moggoi 

 River, but, having five specimens, never shot any more. I saw 

 them west of Fantalli Mountain and near Tadijunulka. 



GrAZELLA GRANTi. Grant's Gazelle. 



Abyssinian name, Midajihel. Galla name, Hedi. 



The only specimens of Grant's Gazelle that I obtained or saw 

 were around the northern shores of Lake Zwai, where they were 

 very numerous and tame. I saw a solitary one a day north of 

 this along with Swayne's Hartebeest close to the Meld River. 

 I do not know of any previous mention of this Antelope so far 

 north, 



Gazella scemmerringi. Soemmerring's Gazelle. 



Abyssinian name, Meidafihel. The natives do not discriminate 

 between Grant's and Soemmerring's. Galla name, Hedi. Somali 

 name, Aoul, 



These Antelopes were common on the Maritime Plain of Somali- 

 land, and occasional on the low ground up to Tadijunulka. "We 

 saw large numbers of them on tlie Danakil plains and in the bush 

 around Mt. Assobot and the Lower Hawash Valley, also near 

 Mt. Fantalli and El Toki there were large numbers, but I never 

 saw any higher up the Hawash than just E. of Sequala. All the 

 heads 1 saw were very small compared with Somali heads, 



Gazella pelzelni. Pelzeln's Gazelle. 



I shot two on the Maritime Plain. I also savv many Gazelles 

 on the hills near Araweina, among the mountains, which were not 

 Speke's Gazelle, but I am not positive that they were Pelzeln's, 



LiTHOCRANiiTS WALLERi, Gereuuk, 



Somali name, Gerenuk. 



Very plentiful all over the country below the Abyssinian 

 escarpment (and, of course, throughout Somaliland), till you pass 

 a little valley beyond Arbawun, when they are no more met with. 

 The Danakil and these western Gerenuks carry heavier heads than 

 the Gerenuk of Somaliland proper. 



