Waller's Gazelle 



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In proportion to its height and length of neck it has a very small body. 

 The only one of which I noted the dimensions was a young male (but 

 apparently mature) killed near Laiju, which I carefully measured on the 

 spot. The measurements were as follows : — 



Height at shoulder, 36 inches ; length from point of shoulder to root 

 of tail, 28 inches ; tail, 9 inches ; neck, from point of shoulder to base 

 of horn, 22 inches. This was, I should say, a small specimen even 





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for East Central Africa ; but they must, 1 think, run much smaller in this, 

 the southern part of their range, than in Somaliland, judging by what one 

 hears of the size to which the species attains in that country. 



Their general colour is a dull red of different shades. The male alone 

 has horns. 



This gazelle is a desert-loving animal ; that is to say, the East African 

 desert, not the conventional one— a sea of bare sand— but arid, sparsely 

 grassed tracts covered with more or less open scrub, or dry plains with 

 scattered bushes. It is not found in continuous thick bush, although, as 



