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reference to the game animals of Somaliland, is Capt. H. G. C. Swayne, R.E. 
Capt. Swayne has made no less than seventeen trips to that attractive country, 
and is probably better acquainted with its larger mammals than any other 
living individual. In his excellent narrative of his adventures *, Capt. Swayne 
has given us some capital notes on Speke’s Gazelle and its near ally Pelzeln’s 
Gazelle, both of which are known to the natives by the same name “ Dhero.” 
Fig. 62. 
Head of adult male Speke’s Gazelle. 
(Brit. Mus.) 
Capt. Swayne calls the former Antelope the ‘“‘Ogo, or Plateau Gazelle,” and 
the latter the “ Guban, or Lowland Gazelle,” and describes the peculiarities of 
the present species as follows :— 
“The Plateau Gazelle, which has the ridges of loose skin over the nose well developed, 
inhabits the elevated country, commencing about thirty-five miles inland. It is found 
* «Seventeen Trips through Somaliland.’ London, Rowland Ward, 1895. 
