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described the species in the ‘ Zoologischer Anzeiger,’ and given it the name 
“ Oreotragus megalotis.” It has, however, certainly but a very remote 
connection, except as regards its habits, with the Klipspringer (Oreotraqus), 
and Dr. Noack was quite justified in proposing for it the new and appropriate 
term Dorcatragus (Sogxac, an Antelope, and zgayoc, a Goat), which he did in 
the same periodical shortly afterwards. Dr. Noack based his article upon 
two specimens, male and female, which he had then lately received from 
Herr Menges for examination. 
The next traveller in Somaliland to encounter this rare Antelope was, we 
believe, Capt. P. Z. Cox, who, writing to Dr. Giinther from Berbera in April 
1895, gave an account of the circumstances under which he obtained a female 
example of the Beira for the British Museum :— 
“7 was returning from a short trip in the interior, upon duty and pleasure combined 
—I was about 50 miles from Berbera; the country I was travelling through was level 
piain, with occasional flat-topped tablelands, with steep sides rising sheer out of the 
general level of the surrounding country. I was passing the foot of one of these large 
plateaux on 29th March, with my Somali Shikari, in search of game, and remarked to 
him that there was a rare Klipspringer said to be found on these plateaux, and that I 
thought I would scale the steep side and just see what there was at the top. 
“ Accordingly we toiled up the face of the tableland and reached the top. It was 
simply a large stretch of perfectly flat ground covered with large, loose, black, burnt-up 
stones, with an occasional green bush to vary the monotony. ‘The extent of the 
plateau was about a mile in length by half a mile broad. We had a very tiring tramp 
over this course, shingle from end to end of it, and just as we reached the further end, 
where there was a little fringe of green bushes, we espied several Antelope browsing 
about 300 yards from us. I could not quite make out what they were, and expected 
them to be some young animals of the Greater Koodoo ; but directly my Shikari saw 
them he said, ‘ Do you know what those are, Sir? they are “ Bahra”; I have only seen 
them once before, and no sportsman has ever shot them.’ 
“There was no cover between us and them, and it was impossible to stalk them from 
where we were, so we made a long detour below the crest of the plateau expecting that 
we could come up within shot on the other side of the animals ; but it was impossible to 
move without displacing stones and making a noise, and when we emerged above the 
crest again it was only to see five Antelopes streaming over the plateau in the direction 
we had just come from. Under such circumstances Klipspringer would have separated 
aud taken to the rocks on the steep sides of the plateau, whereas these animals kept 
in a herd together and galloped away over the flat just as a herd of Gazelle would do. 
“JT was much disappointed at not getting a shot, but I was sure they would not 
leave the plateau, and determined to leave no stone unturned to come up with them. 
We tramped on in the direction they had gone, and after going about half a mile 
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