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straight line as that of its fellow; terminal portion very short. In length 
good male horns attain to about 18 inches. 
Hab. Interior of Northern Somaliland and Shoa. 
Although this fine Hartebeest was pursued and slain by several energetic 
hunters before Captain Swayne met with it in Somaliland, it is to the last- 
named distinguished explorer that we are indebted for our first perfect 
specimens and for an account of its range and habits, and it is therefore 
appropriately named after him. 
The first evidence received of the occurrence of a Hartebeest in Somaliland 
was a flat native skin contained in a collection brought home by Herr Menges 
along with a lot of living animals imported for Mr. Hagenbeck, of Hamburg. 
In some notes on these skins (P. Z. 8S. 1884, p. 539) Sclater referred the 
specimen in question to B. caama. Again, Mr. E. Lort Phillips, F.Z.S., who 
was one of Mr. James’s party in Somaliland in the winter of 1885, shot a 
single young male Hartebeest near the northern boundary of the high 
plateau south of Berbera in April of that year (see P. Z. S. 1885, p. 952), but 
unfortunately lost the skull which he had preserved, and did not meet with 
the species again. 
The next record of this Hartebeest is from a different locality. The Italian 
naturalist Dr. Traversi in 1856 transmitted to Florence a Hartebeest’s head 
which, in his list of Traversi’s collection, Dr. Giglioli referred to B. caama. 
After examining the specimen in the Museum of Florence, and receiving a 
drawing of it from Dr. Giglioli, Sclater (see P. Z. S. 1892, p. 258) was able 
to assure himself that it was in all probability the same as B. swaynei of 
Somaliland. 
In his “ Field-notes” on the Antelopes of Somaliland (P. Z.S. 1892, p. 303) 
Captain Swayne furnishes us with an excellent account of this animal, which 
we now reproduce :— 
“South of the highest ranges of Somaliland, and at a distance of about 
100 miles from the coast, are open plains some four or five thousand feet 
above the sea-level, alternating with broken ground covered with thorn-jungle, 
with an undergrowth of aloes growing sometimes to a height of six feet. 
“This elevated country, called the ‘ Haud,’ is waterless for three months, 
from January to March; it was crossed by Mr. James’s party in 1884, when 
their camels were thirteen days without water. 
