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Gazella wallert had been founded. The skins were at once distinguishable 
by the well-defined dark brown dorsal stripe which, as we now know, forms 
such a noticeable feature in the present species. Further evidence of the 
identity of the Somaliland Antelope with Gazella walleri was obtained by 
the comparison of Mr. James’s specimen with one of the typical skulls of the 
last-named species. ‘They differed little, except in the slightly larger size of 
the northern specimen and in some other minor characters. It was thus 
first shown that the range of Waller's Gazelle extends to Northern Somali- 
land, but we now know that the ‘“ Gerenuk,” as the Somalis call it, is one 
of the most abundant game-animals of that favoured land. 
Capt. Swayne sums up his long acquaintance with this Antelope as 
follows :— 
“The Gerenik is the commonest and most widely distributed of the Somali Antelopes 
except the little Sakdro, which springs up like a hare from every thicket. 
“The long neck of the Gerenik, the large giraffe-like eyes, and long muzzle are 
Sketch of Gerenuk, d and 9, in characteristic attitudes. 
(From Neumann’s ‘ Elephant-Hunting,’ p. 81. Lent by Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co.) 
peculiar to it and the Dibatay (Ammodorcas clarkei). The Gerentk is more of a 
browser of bushes than a grass-feeder, and I have twice shot it in the act of standing 
