ROo elem Gil IX by NUK, 
LITHOCRANIUS WALLERI (Brooxe), 
[PLATE LXXIV.] 
Gazella walleri, Brooke, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 929, pl. lvi. (skull) ; Sel. P. Z. S. 1884, 
p. 538, pl. xlix. (head and skin) ; Phillips, P. Z.S. 1885, p. 931; Scl. in James’s 
Unknown Horn of Africa, p. 262, pl. i. (1888) ; Hunter, in Willoughby’s E. Afr. 
p- 289 (1889); Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 342 (1891) ; Inverarity, Journ. Bombay 
N. H. Soe. vi. p. 459 (1891). 
Lit(h)ocranius (Gazella) walleri, Kohl, Ann. Mus. Wien, i. p. 79, pl. v. fig. 3, and 
pl. vi. fig. 1 (skull) (1886) (Somaliland). 
Lithocranius walleri, Thos. P. Z.S. 1891, p. 207; Scl. P. Z.S. 1892, p. 101; Swayne, 
P.Z.S. 1892, p. 305 ; Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 134 (1892), (2) p. 175 (1896) ; 
Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 241 (1893); Jackson, in Badminton Big Game 
Shooting, 1. p. 307 (head) (18914); Scl. P.Z. 8. 1898, pp. 101 & 118; Swayne, 
P. Z.S. 1895, p. 305 (habits) ; id. Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, p. 812 (1895) ; 
Matsch. Saug. Deutsch-O.-Afr. p. 182 (1895) ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulihan, p. 180, 
pl. x. fig. 4 (1895); Thos. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xvi. p. 107 (1896); Rhoads, 
P. Ac. Philad. 1896, p. 519; Elliot, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 226 (1897). 
VernacuLtar Name :—Gerenuk of Somalis (Swayne and others). 
Height at withers 39 inches in an old male. General colour of back rich 
chestnut rufous, sharply bounded on the upperside of each flank by the very 
distinct light lateral line, which passes below imperceptibly into fawn-colour, 
much paler than the dorsal colour, no trace of a dark lateral line being present. 
The fawn-colour also extends on to the crown, all round the neck, on the 
shoulders, hips, and down the limbs. Central line of face deep rufous; area 
round eye whitish, sometimes extended forwards as a light final streak 
towards the muzzle, but more often stopping just anterior to the openings of 
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