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Thomas was originally inclined to refer the three skulls of this Oribi 
which were received in 1887 from Mr. J. G. Haggard, then H.B.M. Vice- 
Consul at Lamu, to Peters’s Ourebia hastata. When, however, he had after- 
wards obtained specimens of the Oribi of Nyasaland, which were doubtless 
to be referred to the form described by Peters, he perceived his error, and 
proceeded to base a new species upon the specimens in question, assigning 
to it the name of their collector and donor, according to whom this Antelope 
is known to the Swahilis at Lamu as “ Taya.” 
Fig. 24. 
Skull of Ourebia haggardi, 3 - 
Mr. F. J. Jackson, in his ‘ Big Game Shooting, gives us the following 
account of the ‘‘ Taya ” :— 
“ The East-African Oribi (also known to the Swahilis as ‘Taya’) I have 
found more plentiful on the mainland near Lamu than anywhere else. Sir 
Robert Harvey and Mr. Hunter, in October and November 1888, also found 
