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This divergence was so remarkable that Brooke doubted “whether the 
species should not constitute the type of a new subgenus.” As we shall see 
later, Brooke’s views have been fully justified by what has taken place since 
a close acquaintance with the structure of this singular Antelope has been 
acquired. 
Fig. 85. 
Skull of the Gerenuk. 
(From Brooke, P. Z. 8. 1878, pl. lvi.) 
It was six years after the publication of Brooke’s paper before any 
additional information concerning this strange Antelope was obained. In 
November 1884 Sclater brought before the notice of the Zoological Society 
a series of flat skins of Mammals, prepared by the natives of Somaliland, 
which had been lent to him for examination by Mr. C. Hagenbeck, of 
Hamburg. Amongst these were two skins, at first believed to belong to 
a new Gazelle, but which, after much research and mainly by the aid of a 
mounted head obtained in Somaliland by the late Mr. F. L. James, he was 
enabled to prove must belong to the same Antelope on the skull of which 
