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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
habitat would suggest its origin in the Somaliland region 
and its extension later southward into British and German 
East Africa. 
Gerenuk 
Lithocranius walleri 
Native Names: Somali, gerenuk; Rendile, tange. 
Gazella walleri Brooke, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 929, pi. LVI. 
Range. —From Somaliland and southern Abyssinia south¬ 
ward throughout the coast and Lake Rudolf drainage area 
to the Kilimanjaro district and the Rift Valley of German 
East Africa as far south as the mouth of the Pangani River. 
The gerenuk was first described by Sir Victor Brooke 
from specimens received from Waller, supposedly from the 
Kilimanjaro region. Sclater and Thomas, however, in the 
“ Book of Antelopes,” refer the origin of these specimens to 
the coast district near the mouth of the Juba River, on infor¬ 
mation received from Sir John Kirk, from whom Waller is 
alleged to have obtained the specimens sent to Brooke. 
The species is of rare or local occurrence in the Kilimanjaro 
region and has been obtained by very few sportsmen in 
that district. North of the Tana River, however, and 
throughout Somaliland it is universally distributed and is 
well known to every traveller who has visited these regions. 
It is doubtless from this latter region that the specimens 
described by Brooke were obtained. Herr Oscar Neumann, 
in 1899, described the gerenuk of Somaliland as a new race, 
giving as characters larger body size, paler color, lighter- 
colored knee-brushes, and less extent to the white area on 
the back of the hind quarters. Specimens from the North¬ 
ern Guaso Nyiro district in the National Museum are fully 
as large as the dimensions of Somaliland specimens and 
resemble them closely in color and extent of the white on 
the hind quarters. The color of the knee-brushes in these 
specimens varies from light brown to seal-brown or black. 
We doubt very much if the Somali gerenuk can be distin¬ 
guished from specimens from British East Africa. 
This queer, long-legged, long-necked antelope, called by 
the Swahilis “ little camel,” was common in the dry, thorn- 
