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chances when they stand to look back. The female exposes 
herself most, and is consequently most often shot. All Sakaro 
prefer broken ground, where there is good cover of low scrub 
or aloes, and they are never seen in open grass plains. They 
lie close like hares, and when disturbed dart out with successive 
hops, at a great pace. I have often seen about eighty Sakaro 
in the course of a day’s march. They nibble the young shoots 
of the low khansa and other bushes ; and like to be near water, 
going to drink at mid-day and just after nightfall. 
After my second Webbe trip I collected specimens of the 
three kinds, which, with those already collected by Mr. Lort 
Phillips and other sportsmen, enabled Mr. O. Thomas to ascer- 
tain that all were new ; and they were then described by him 
( P.Z.S. , April 1894), and called respectively Madoqua swaynei , 
M. phillipsi , and M. guentheri . 
The Balra Antelope ( Dorcotragus megalotis) 
Native name, Bair a 
The Baira antelope, which my brother and I believed to be 
new, was described by Herr Menges ( Zool . Anz. xvii. 1894) as 
Oreotragus megalotis. Specimens had been submitted by me to 
Mr. O. Thomas, who pronounced it new a few days before Herr 
Menges brought his specimens forward in Germany for the 
purposes of description. 
I first heard of it near Ali-Maan, in the Gadabursi country, 
among very rugged hills, in the autumn of 1891, when my 
brother saw two, but failed to get a shot. He described them 
as reddish antelopes, rather larger than the klipspringer, with 
small straight horns, bounding away among the rocks in exactly 
the same manner as the klipspringer. 
On my last trip the SomMis assured me that I should find 
them on Wagar Mountain and on Negegr, which is its eastern 
continuation, lying about forty miles south-south-east of Berbera, 
and rising to between six and seven thousand feet. They said 
it wtis nearly as large as an ordinary plateau gazelle, but reddish; 
also that it inhabited ground similar to the klipspringer, but 
was shy and difficult to shoot. On leaving the coast on my 
last trip I sent men in to look for the Baira , offering a reward 
for a good head and skin of a male and female, and gave in- 
structions to my agents in Berbera and Aden to pay the reward 
and send me the specimens. 
