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they eat that of other antelopes. This may help to 

 explain the great number of gerenuks in Somaliland. 



The Gerenuk [Lithocranius wa/leri). 



There appears to be some floul)t in the minds of 

 zoologists whether the pretty little Steinbok of British 

 East Africa is a variety of the steinbok so common 

 and so well-known in South Africa. Zoologists have 

 )>een acquainted with this little quadruped since the 

 great circumnavigator Captain Cook visited the Cape 

 of Good Hope in 1775. The males have a pair of horns 

 nearly vertical and about 2i^ inches long, and as their 

 generic name (raphiceros) implies they are pointed and 

 needle-like. 



