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goat, high up the trunk of a Galol-tree nibbling the small green leaves. The female 
is hornless, whilst the horns of a good male measure from 14 to 15 inches. Its legs 
are extremely slender. When disturbed it runs with its long neck stretched out as 
near the ground as possible, so that it can never be mistaken for a Clarke’s Gazelle, as 
the latter always holds its head erect and its tail well over its back, and springs instead 
of runs. The young are born, I believe, early in the year; but I have never seen a 
really young one, although I have been in the country every month in the year except 
May and June. On December 8th, 1894, I was stalking an Oryx when a female 
Waller’s Gazelle ran almost on to me pursued by a male; they did not see me, but 
turned and ran back, and then again came towards where I was lying, still without 
seeing me. After they had gone I crawled on, when for the third time they returned 
and this time saw me. I remained motionless on one knee ; the female retired to a 
bush, and the male with its neck stretched at its full length came cautiously towards 
me till within 25 yards, and then gave three or four snorts. As it was the Oryx I was 
after I now moved and they at once trotted off.” 
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We copy an account of the native mode of capture of this Gazelle from 
Messrs. Parkinson and Dunbav’s narrative of their journey in Northern 
Somaliland in 1896 (Geogr. Journ. xi. p. 25):— 
“We found here (on the Bur Dab range) an old man living entirely alone, sub- 
sisting on gum and snared game. He was very clever at catching ‘ Gerenok,’ or 
Waller’s Gazelle, by means of a cord made of the fibre of the ‘hig’ aloe. At one end 
of the cord a running noose, 6 inches in diameter, was laid round the rim of a cup- 
shaped hole scooped in the ground, and supported by a series of small pegs. Near the 
noose was attached a fine but strong thread, the other end of which was fastened to a 
springy branch of a tree bent down for the purpose. The noose was prevented from 
being dragged out of the hole by two pieces of wood laid crosswise. The loose end of 
the cord was either tied to an adjacent tree or pegged firmly to the ground, and all 
traces of the trap neatly covered with leaves and sand. The Gazelle is, of course, 
caught by the leg, and once the noose is drawn tightly round above the hoof there is no 
escape ; but it must need large experience of the haunts of the game to know where to 
set these gins. The old man had thirty or forty constantly set, and said he got a 
Gazelle once every four or five days.” 
Mr. Alfred Pease has kindly summarized his field-notes on the Gerenuk 
in the following paragraphs :— 
“The Gerenuk is the commonest and most evenly distributed of all the Somali 
Autelopes, if we exclude the little Dik-diks, but it is by no means the least interesting. 
It is as peculiar as it is beautiful. At rest it is graceful, when running grotesque, and 
when feeding most curious in its pose. But its colouring of red and purple-grey, its 
reach of view, and its motions all wonderfully facilitate its power of escaping observation. 
