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109. THE BEIRA. 
DORCOTRAGUS MEGALOTIS (Menazs). 
[PLATE LXXV.] 
Behra, Menges, Peterm. Mitth. xxxi. p. 454 (1885) (Hekebo plateau). 
Beira, Scl. P. Z.S. 1892, pp. 102, 118; Swayne, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 308. 
Oreotragus megalotis, Menges, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 131 (1894); Swayne, Seventeen 
Trips to Somaliland, p. 321 (1895). 
Dorcotragus meyalotis, Noack, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 202 (1894) ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulihan, 
p- 186 (1895) ; Elliot, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 185 (1897) (Hargeisa). 
Vernacutar Namu:—Beira of Somalis (Swayne). 
Size about as in the Steinbok or Grysbok; height at withers 20 inches in 
an adult male. General colour of neck and back a peculiar purplish grey, 
very finely grizzled with white, the extreme tips of the hairs being this latter 
colour. Scarcely a trace of a light lateral band, but a distinct dark one 
present, brownish, passing quite across the shoulder, and extending behind 
on to the sides of the rump. Belly not, as is usual, pure white throughout, 
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but only white on the axille and groins, the remainder pale yellowish fawn, 
or even orange-fawn, this colour also extending on to the outer sides of the 
forearms and thighs; rest of limbs becoming darker fulvous to the hoofs. 
Head bright fulvous, quite different to the neck; area round eyes white, but 
no Gazelline facial streaks present. ‘Tail short and rather bushy, coloured 
like the back, without darker tip. 
@ Measurements of an old male skull :—Basal length 5°35 inches, greatest 
breadth 3:15, muzzle to orbit 3:2. 
Horns ordinarily from 4 to 5 inches in length, the longest in the British 
Museum collection, one of Capt. Swayne’s, attaining 52 inches. 
