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during the Abyssinian Expedition ; and several heads and skins from Suakin 
collected and presented by Major W. Sparkes, of the Welsh Regiment, now 
attached to the Egyptian army. 
Of the southern subspecies, Gazella soemmerringi berberana, the National 
Collection possesses a stuffed adult male specimen obtained on the Shebeyli 
River, Somaliland, and presented by Col. Arthur Paget, who has also given 
to the Museum two heads (male and female) from the Bourdap Mountains in 
the same country. In the British Museum there are likewise a mounted 
head and skins of both sexes of this Antelope collected by Capt. Swayne in 
Somaliland and presented by Sclater. 
The first living examples of Soemmerring’s Gazelle received by the 
Zoological Society were purchased of a dealer in August 1867. The 
announcement of their arrival, which appeared in the ‘ Proceedings’ for 
November 14th of that year, was accompanied by a beautiful lithographic 
plate of the young pair drawn by Mr. Wolf. In 1871 a fine young male 
example of this Antelope was presented by Mr. Charles McIver, Jun., with 
the iuformation that the specimen had been obtained in the desert on the 
Red Sea coast about 100 miles south of Suez. If this was correct, the range 
of this Antelope would appear to extend considerably further north than 
we know of upon any other authority. Other specimens of this Antelope 
were obtained in 1877, 1879, 1892, and 1895, including a fine pair from 
Suakin presented by Col. Holled Smith, C.B., in July 1892. At the present 
moment, also, there is a fine male of this Antelope in the Society’s Gardens, 
obtained by purchase in 1897. 
Our representation of this Antelope (Plate LX.X.) was drawn by Mr. Wolf 
under Sir Victor Brooke’s directions, and put upon the stone by Smit. It is 
that of an adult male example, but we unfortunately do not know from what 
specimen it was taken. 
September, 1898. 
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