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3. Field-notes on the Antelopes obtained daring a Journey 

 in Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia in 1900-1901. 

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



[Received July 8, 1901.] 



Buhalis bwatjtbi. Swayne's llarteheest. 



Galla name, Korki, Abyssinian name, Gedempsa or Gedemfsa. 



Somali name, Sieg. 



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

 side of the Hawash River : we saw them between the I law ash and 

 Awaramulka. Major Grwynn, R.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, how ever, 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 

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

 I •">] in. long, 10 in. in circ, and 17 i from tip to tip. One of these 

 1 killed whilst it was being closely pursued by a Serval, which 

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

 should attack a Hartbeest. 



Cephalophus sp. inc. Duiker. 



Abyssinian name, MidaJcwa. 



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 

 LO 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 of its coat: it was decidedly 

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

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

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

 theeml 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, hut would 

 eat dry leaves, t wigs, bits of bark, and the stalks and leaves of 

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

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

 died. 1 1 was such a liercaveinent 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 <»f the (hick jungle, 

 giving no chance for a rillo. I never had one in sight for half a 

 second. I met with them on the Bntoto Hills, Sequala. &C. ; I 



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



I buuikil ( 'ountry. 



