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by the British Museum from Capt. Swayne enabled Thomas to vindicate its 
claim to stand as a distinct species. 
Capt. Swayne, in his lately published ‘Seventeen Trips to Somaliland,’ 
gives us the following notes on his experiences with the Gussuli, as the 
Somalis call this Antelope :—‘‘ I came on Gussuli for the first time about a 
day’s journey south of Seyyid Mahomed’s village in the Malingitr tribe, and 
found it to exist all over the Rer Amaden country. Its range coincides 
nearly with that of the rhinoceros, and it is found, like the latter animal, in 
parts of the Haud, where its ground overlaps with the range of the Gol-Ass. 
The Gussuli is if anything slightly larger than the Gol-Ass, and of a dead 
grey colour, with a white belly. The female appears to be much larger than 
the male; and it isa pretty safe rule, when trying to shoot the buck of a 
pair, to aim at the smaller one. 
“The Gol-Ass and Guyu have short muzzles, while that of the Gussuli is 
very long, resembling the snout of a tapir. The two former Antelopes are 
found in pairs, seldom more than three being seen together. ‘They give a 
shrill alarm whistle, uttered two or three times in quick succession, and are 
often a nuisance, being apt to disturb more valuable game. The Gussuli 
start up three or four at a time, and sometimes the undergrowth seems to be 
alive with them. These small Antelopes are very easily knocked over with 
a shot-gun and No. 4 shot. They give good sport in the evening, when they 
are liveliest, especially if followed silently and fired at with a rook-rifle, for 
they give plenty of chances when they stand to look back. The female 
exposes herself most, and is consequently most often shot.” 
Mr. Robert B. B. Christie, of Birling House, Maidstone, who has quite 
recently sent a skin of this Dik-dik to the British Museum from the interior 
of Somaliland, writes of it:—‘‘ The locality I obtained this specimen from 
was, as nearly as possible, lat. 7° 30’ N., long. 43° 20’ E. The country was a 
high broken rocky table-land, thickly covered with thorn forest with large 
areas of low thorn scrub-bush; in the latter the ‘Long-nosed Dik-dik’ is 
principally found ; where there are patches of the spear-shaped aloe is also a 
favourite spot for this small Antelope on the banks of the nullahs and the 
lower parts of the low rocky hills. South of lat. 7° 30’ and west of long. 
43° 20’ I found them numerous, becoming still more so the further I went 
west up to the Galla country. In August and September I noticed that they 
were generally in pairs, male and female, in company with others, from six 
