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As we have already mentioned in our account of the last species, the late 
Mr. F. L. James and his party, who visited Somaliland in 1884, appear to 
have been the first to bring to England examples of the two allied Gazelles 
of Somaliland. Unfortunately, however, though perhaps not unnaturally, 
Sclater, who assisted Mr. E. Lort Phillips in the determination of the 
Mammals obtained during that expedition, referred the coast-land specimens 
to Gazella spekei, and described the examples from the high plateau as 
belonging to a new species, Gazella naso. About two years later, however, 
this error was corrected by Herr H. F. Kohl, of the Natural History Museum 
of Vienna, who, in an article upon new and rare Antelopes collected by 
Herr L. Menges in Somaliland, among which examples of both these 
Gazelles were comprised, rightly referred the upland species to Gazella 
speket of Blyth and gave to the lowland species, then still unnamed, the 
title of Gazella pelzelni, after the late August von Pelzeln, a well-known 
naturalist, who was at that time Custos of the Imperial Museum of Natural 
History. 
Thomas, in his article on the Antelopes collected in Somaliland by 
Mr. 'T. W. H. Clarke, published in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings ’ 
for 1891, was the first to make this matter perfectly clear, and to establish 
the name Gazella pelzelni as the permanent designation of the coast-land 
Gazelle of Somaliland. Since that date the distinctions between the two 
allied species have become well recognized and understood, and numerous 
examples of both species have been obtained by the naturalists and sportsmen 
who have recently visited that country. 
Capt. Swayne, in his well-known work on Somaliland and its wild animals 
(from which, by the kind permission of Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co., the 
publishers, we have been allowed to borrow illustrations of the heads of 
both sexes of this Gazelle), tells us that the ‘short-coated, light-coloured 
Lowland Gazelle” carries rather longer horns than those of the Plateau 
Gazelle (Gazella spekei), which are “ shorter, thicker, more curved, and better 
annulated.” ‘The habits of both,” he continues, “are nearly alike; they go 
in moderate-sized herds of from three to ten, and resort mostly to stony or 
sandy undulating ground or ravines thinly dotted over with mimosas. Both 
species are fond of salt and do not require water. It is hard to understand 
what they can pick up to eat in the wretched ground which they frequent. 
They have a curiosity which amounts almost to impudence, but are 
