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Hab. Northern Somaliland; hills along the northern edge of the 
Haud. 
On several occasions during the many years in which Sclater’s excellent 
correspondent Captain H. G. C. Swayne, R.E., was engaged on his various 
explorations and expeditions in Somaliland, he wrote about a “small 
red Antelope” found in the mountains which had the habits of a 
“‘ Klipspringer,” but, according to native testimony, was of quite a different 
species. The existence of the same animal had also been recorded as long ago 
as 1885 under the name “&ehra,” by Herr Josef Menges, in an account of 
his fourth journey in Somaliland, published in Petermann’s ‘ Mittheilungen.’ 
Herr Menges met with the “Bedra” on the Hekebo plateau (about 10° S. lat. 
and 44° 40' KE. long.), and had at one time a young living specimen of it in 
his possession. > 
After Herr Menges the “Behra” or ‘“ Beira,” as it is now usually called, 
after its Somali name, seems to have been first actually seen by Lieut. E. J. 
Swayne, of the Indian Staff Corps, Capt. Swayne’s brother, when he was in the 
Gadabursi country in the autumn of 1891. He observed two of them among 
very rugged hills, but failed to get a shot at them. He described them to 
Capt. Swayne as being “reddish Antelopes, rather larger than the Klip- 
springer, with small straight horns, which bounded away among the rocks in 
exactly the same manner as the Klipspringer.” 
Capt. Swayne was much excited about this discovery, and promised Sclater 
to do all he could to procure specimens of the animal. On his last trip to 
Somaliland he was assured by his Somalis that he would find the “ Beira ” 
on Waggar Mountain, near the south-eastern extremity of the Golis range, 
but he had not time to go there. On leaving Berbera, however, 
Capt. Swayne exhorted his men to proceed to the mountains themselves 
and to endeavour to procure some specimens of the Beira, offering them a 
handsome reward for good heads and skulls of a male and female, and 
leaving instructions to his agents there to pay the men and to forward the 
specimens. 
Early in 1894 the much-wished-for skins were obtained by the faithful 
Somalis and forwarded to Sclater by Captain Swayne. We were proceeding 
to describe and figure them in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ when 
we found that we had been anticipated by Herr Menges, who had just 
