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Show 1891.] ANTELOPES FROM SOMALI-LAND. 211 6*. L. 273. C. 102. Rings 19. 6*. L. 272. C. 98. Rings 17. $. L. 241. C. 70. Mr. Clarke's specimens prove the fact, unsuspected or forgotten since 1856, that the original G. spekei of Blyth is the Flabby-nosed Gazelle of the Somali plateau, and not the smooth-nosed one of the lowlands near Berbera, to which the name has been applied by Mr. Lort Phillips. The smooth-nosed one is that described by Dr. Kohl as G.pelzelni (loc. infrd cit.), the horns of the latter brought by Mr. Clarke agreeing absolutely with one of the specimens of " G. spekei''' obtained by Mr. Lort Phillips. Without entering into details, the identity of " G. naso " with G. spekei is readily shown by the following extract from Lieut. (afterwards Sir Richard) Burton's notes on G. spekei given in Blyth's description:-" as you may observe that there is an elevation of loose replicated skin upon the nose." The mistake has arisen not unnaturally by supposing that at Berbera Speke got the Berbera Gazelle (G. pelzelni), and there is little in Blyth's own description and nothing in Mr. Blanford's figures to have aroused a suspicion of the true state of the case. The horns of G. spekei are readily distinguishable from those of G. pelzelni by their much greater curvature, those of the latter species being almost as straight as those of G. thomsoni, Giinth., to which in fact G. pelzelni is most nearly allied. The black nose-patch of G. spekei affords also a ready mark of distinction from G. pelzelni, in which the upper surface of the muzzle is quite uniformly coloured. Mr. Clarke says :-" The Gazelle heads were all shot beyond Ragar and have the big nose. The straight-horned one \_G. pelzelni] is the common one round Berbera, but when once you get on the plateau, the big-nosed ones take their place. The two species are very much alike in the body, but the horns of the Berbera one are straight and it has no loose nose." 6. GAZELLA PELZELNI, Kohl. Gazella spekei, Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931 (nee Blyth). G. pelzelni, Kohl, Ann. Mus. Wien, i. p. 76, pis. iii. & iv. (animal, skull, and horns) (1886). a. d1. L. 267. C. 95. Rings 17- b. d. L. 297. C. 86. Rings 19. Specimen b has nearly an inch of rough but un-ringed horn at the base below the large rings, showing that 19 rings are about as many as this species ever develops. 7. OREOTRAGUS SALTATOR, Bodd. 6 • L- 95. 8. NEOTRAGUS SALTIANTJS, De Blainv. o*. Horns, 1. 70. All the North Somali Neotragi seem to belong to this, the Abyssinian species, and not to N. kirki, Giinth., the East-African form, 14* |