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described and figured by Cretzschmar in the ‘ Atlas’ which illustrated the 
zoological portion of Rippell’s ‘Reise.’ The species was dedicated to Ritter 
Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring, on the occasion of that savant attaining 
the fiftieth year of his Doctorate—an event which was celebrated by the 
Senckenbergian Naturalists’ Society of Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 7th of 
April, 1828. The original specimens were procured by Riippell on the 
eastern slope of the Abyssinian coast-range, and were deposited along with 
all his other collections in the Senckenbergian Museum. In a réswiné of his 
knowledge of the East-African Antelopes contained in a subsequent work on 
the Vertebrates of Abyssinia, Riippell tells us that he only met with this 
species in the bush-clad valleys of the Abyssinian coast, but that it was said 
to occur also on the large island of Dahalak off Massowah. It was generally 
observed in small families, which, however, sometimes congregated into 
larger herds. 
Fig. 81. 
Skull and horns of Gazella soemmerringi typica (male). 
(From a specimen in the British Museum.) 
Heuglin, another good authority on the animals of North-east Africa, 
informs us that this Antelope extends along the coast of the Red Sea from 
20° N. latitude southwards to the Danakil country, and that it is also found 
in valleys of the Baraka and Atbara in the interior, and extends up to the 
neighbourhood of Berber, but ‘is not so plentiful here as in the coast- 
districts. 
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