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THE FAVNA OF SOMALILAND 
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never again brought myself to shoot a monkey. I have seen 
baboons scores of times since, and have never molested them, 
and as they soon gek over their shyness and fear of man, I have 
been able to watch their habits closely. 
Besides these maned baboons, we found in the belt of forest 
on the Webbe banks a maneless baboon and a small tree- 
monkey. In parts of this forest the monkeys and baboons 
simply swarm. They spring about everywhere above and 
around the traveller, and the stench is nearly unbearable. 
Among game-birds the most noticeable are three kinds of 
the bustard tribe ( Salalmadli ), three species of guinea-fowl 
( Digirin ), partridges, sand-grouse, and a wild goose in Ogaden. 
Birds of prey are very conspicuous, there being at least two 
kinds of vultures ( Gur-Gur ) and a small black and white eagle, 
kites, ravens, and the great black and white carrion-storks, 
which stand about four feet high and have very large orange- 
coloured beaks. 
Jackals ( Dowcio ), with black and silver backs, are very 
common ; also foxes, a small variety of hare ( Bokheila ), a badger 
very like the English kind, two kinds of squirrel, gray and brown 
(. Dabergdli ), and the little rock-rabbits (Bauncc). There is a 
mouse-coloured animal of the weasel kind ( Shok-Shok ), which 
lives under the roots of trees and hunts in packs. Snakes are 
numerous, three kinds most often met with being an adder 
( Abeso ), a variegated rock -snake ( Abcjuri ), and a black snake 
called muss, all of which are said to be very deadly. There is 
also a lizard nearly four feet long. Among the insects may be 
mentioned mosquitoes ( Kan-dd ) — they are only troublesome, 
however, on the W ebbe and in the Esa and Gadabursi countries ; 
two kinds of gadfly ; a large spider ( Hangeyu ), which produces 
a web almost exactly like golden silk, to be found in any old 
zeriba in the Haud ; scorpions, and two kinds of centipede 
(Hangagdri). 
