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narrow, pointed, their backs whitish fawn. Knee-tufts present, brownish 
fawn. Pygal band very indistinct. 
Skull with short broad nasals, the premaxille not or barely touching their 
outer corners. Basal length in an old male 6°5 inches, greatest breadth 3:35, 
muzzle to orbit 3°6. 
Horns but slightly divergent, evenly and strongly curved backwards for 
three-fourths their length, their tips gently recurved upwards. 
Female. Like the male, but the horns slender, little ridged, less curved, 
about three-fourths the length of those of the male. 
Hab. Tnterior Plateau of Somaliland. 
There can be no doubt that the two Gazelles which inhabit the maritime 
plain and the high inland plateau of Somaliland respectively, although 
they are closely allied, and have been confused together by some writers, 
belong to distinct species, distinguishable by well-marked characters. The 
Gazelle of the interior plateau, which we treat of first, when compared with 
that of the coast-land is at once recognizable by the generally browner 
colour, the darker lateral band, the black nose-spot, and above all by the 
wrinkled and elevated nose of the adult, which is not met with in the 
sister species. 
Speke’s Gazelle was first discovered by the energetic African explorer, 
whose name it appropriately bears, during his expedition to Harar in the 
summer of 1854 in company with the late Capt. Sir Richard Burton *, 
Speke, who attended to the natural history of the expedition, forwarded 
the collections made upon this occasion to Blyth, at that time curator of the 
Asiatic Society’s Museum at Calcutta, and in the zenith: of his zoological 
work. In his report upon the collection, which was published in the twenty- 
fourth volume of the ‘ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ Blyth did not 
venture to bestow a new name on this Gazelle, although he gave an accurate 
description of it, and added a note (obtained from Burton) calling special 
attention to “the elevation of loose replicated skin upon the nose,” so that 
there can be no doubt as to which of the two allied species Speke’s specimens 
(which are still in the Calcutta Museum 7) belong. 
CLE LONG by Dan 
* See Burton’s “ Narrative of a Trip to Harar,” Journ. R. G. 8. xxv. p. 136 (1855). 
+ See Cat. of Mamm. in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part II., by W. L. Sclater (1891), 
p- 158. 
