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Show 318 CAPT. H. G. C SWAYNE ON THE [Apr. 3, On this occasion the buck was in company with one female, which broke back through the line in spite of the firing, and in rather a curious manner. The only way of crossing the hne was to jump over the head of one of m y men who was standing erect; and this she did, striking him in the centre of the forehead with her hoofs and knocking him down ; and so she got away. The longest pair of horns were a pair which I picked up, measuring about 17 inches in length. Females hornless. The young of both sexes are of a distinct reddish brown, getting darker as they grow older, and the natives say the old bucks become nearly black. The hair is generally curiously worn off along the spine. There are four or five transverse white stripes and white spots up to about thirty on each side, more numerous in the young animals. The necks are scantily covered with short hair, and in the two young bucks we killed were very slender. The flesh is very good eating. I am not aware that the Bushbuck exists anywhere in Somaliland but in the dense forest close to the banks of the Webbe-Shabeyli river. CLARKE'S GAZELLE (Ammodorcas clarkei). Somali name "Diba-tag " or " Diptag." The Dibatag is common enough where it is found at all, but it is very local in its distribution. Since Mr. Clarke first discovered it in the distant Marehan country, to tbe south-east, and in the Dolbahanta country, a few have been met with and shot by sportsmen in the eastern parts of the Haud Waterless Plateau. I have been singularly unfortunate with this Antelope, never having been in the country inhabited by it till I went to the Nogal Valley three years ago. At that time the " Jilal," or dry season, was at its height, and all game scarce and shy. I never got a Dibatag till last June, when on m y return journey from Ogaden across the Waterless Plateau I made a detour of several days to the east on purpose to shoot one. 1 searched for Dibatag at Tur, a jungle due south of Toyo grass-plains, the distance being some eighty miles from Berbera. I was lucky in getting one good buck and in picking up two pairs of horns. I saw a good many Dibatag, but all Mere wild and shy. This is their extreme western limit, and they never by any chance come so far south as the Golis range. Further east, towards Buro, they are more plentiful and less shy. Dibatag are very difficult to see, their purplish-grey colour matching with the high "durr" grass in the glades where they are found. Its glossy coat, shining like that of a well-groomed horse, reflects the surrounding colours, making it sometimes almost invisible ; and at the best of times its slender body is hard to make out. I have often mistaken female Waller's Gazelles for Dibatag, and |