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SOMALILAND 
UNGULATES (Hoofed Mammals). 
Galla Bull. 
These bumped cattle are bred extensively by the Somalis, and are most 
numerous on the Shoan and Galla boundaries, where they fall into the 
hands of the Abyssinians in great numbers. 
All colours. The horns of this humped bull are very large and thick. 
African Buffalo {Bos caffer). 
Tracks seen by Major Swayne at Sen Morettu, in the forests on the banks 
of the Webbi Shebeyli. Said to be plentiful on the Webbi Web, a 
tributary of the Ganana, four days’ march from Karanleh (Major 
H. Swayne). 
Colour black ; black fringes to ears ; massive horns. Considered to be the 
most formidable of big game to approach when wounded. 
Black-headed Sheep {Omsaries streatopyza). 
Found all over Somaliland. 
Body white ; hair short ; enormous flaps of fat on either side of tail, which 
expand or contract according to the feed ; head and neck black ; no 
horns. 
Sudan Goat. 
Found all over Somaliland. 
Generally white ; male has white beard ; horns short. 
The Koodoo {Strejmceros kudu). 
Gulis Eange, Gadabursi Mountains, Hargaisa, and the mountains of the 
Boorgha country. 
These magnificent animals, possessing the grandest horn trophies in Africa, 
measure as much as 5 feet at the withers. Colour gray, striped on sides 
with thin bars of white. Bulls have fine long mane, and beard of dark 
brown ; females hornless. Hair of beard measures as much as 9 inches 
in length in a good specimen ; breadth of ear, 7 inches (round back of). 
When alarmed these animals ‘ bark ’ like our Highland red deer. The 
immature are fawn-coloured. 
Measurements of horns collected by me (length in inches) : 
straight line. 
On outside curve. 
Circumference. 
Tip to tip. 
42 
54i 
9i 
324 
40 
54 
10^ 
26^ 
37| 
49t 
lOi 
19| 
34 
8f 
23J 
Lesser Koodoo {S. imberbis). 
Base of the Gulis Bange ; parts of Ogaden ; Gaboon, in the Haweea country ; 
base of Bur Gabo Eange, in the Marehan country. 
One of the prettiest animals in Somaliland. 
Length from tip of nose to end of tail ... 6 feet 8 inches. 
„ „ „ „ dressed 6 „ 11^ „ 
Length of horns ... 
Tip to tip 
Eound base 
Lengths of other horns collected by me 
24 
13 | 
6 | 
23, 21, 18 
