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they eat that of other antelopes. This may help to 
explain the great number of gerermks in Somaliland. 
The Gerenuk {Litliocranius imlleri). 
There appears to be some doubt in the minds of 
zoologists whether the pretty little Steinbok of British 
East Africa is a variety of the steinbok so common 
and so well-known in South Africa. Zoologists have 
been acquainted with this little quadruped since the 
great circumnavigator Captain Cook visited the Cape 
of Good Hope in 1775. The males have a pair of horns 
nearly vertical and about 24 inches long, and as their 
generic name (raphiceros) implies they are pointed and 
needle-like. 
