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Show 1894.] GAME-ANIMALS OF SOMALILAND. 321 thirty followers; in fact for many days we had no other food; and this was no hardship whatever, as tbe meat is better than that of many of the antelopes. The flesh is highly prized by the Rer Amaden and Malingur tribes. The Zebra was very common in the territory of these two tribes. The country there is covered with scattered bush over its entire surface, and is stony and much broken up by ravines ; the general elevation is about 2500 feet above sea-level. The Zebras, of which I saw probably not more than 200 in all, were met with in small droves of about half a dozen, on low plateaux covered with scattered thorn bush and glades of " durr " grass, the soil being powdery and red in colour with an occasional outcrop of rocks. In this sort of country they are very easy to stalk, and I should never have fired at them for sport alone. I saw none in the open flats of the Webbe valley, and they never come near so far north as the open grass-plains of the Haud, Durhi south of the Fafan being their northern limit. The young Zebras have longer hair and the stripes are rather light brown, turning to a deep chocolate, which is nearly black in adult animals. After firing at one of a drove of Zebras I was sorry to find on going up to it that it was a female, and that its foal was standing by the body, refusing to run away though the rest had all gone. W e crept up to within ten yards of it, and made au unsuccessful attempt to noose it with a rope weighted by bullets, but it made off after the first try. W e must have been quite five minutes standing within ten yards in the thick bush while we were preparing the noose. Zebras are very inquisitive; when I was encamped for some days at Eil-Fud, in the Rer Amaden country, the Zebras used to come at night and bray and stamp round our camp, and were answered by m y Abyssinian mule. The sounds of the two animals are very similar. BLACK RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros bicomis). Native name " Wiyil." For many years the Two-horned Rhinoceros has been known to exist in the interior of Somaliland, and going further in every year I have constantly been expecting to come upon their ground. The first Somali Rhinoceroses were shot by m y brother and myself in our expedition to the Abyssinian Border in August 1892, and since then only a few have been shot by Europeans. They come far north of the range of the Zebras, sometimes wandering as far as the open grass-plains of Toyo, a hundred miles south of Berbera, where they hide in the patches of " durr " grass. They are common in the south-eastern Haud ; I never found any signs of them in many expeditions in the Habr Awat, Esa, and Gadabursi countries. They are most common in the valley of the Tug Fafan, and thence in the whole of the country as far as the |