The book of antelopes . elle.(Brit. Mus.) Capt. Swayne calls the former Antelope the Ogo, or Plateau Gazelle, andthe latter the Guban, or Lowland Gazelle, and describes the peculiarities ofthe present species as follows:— The Plateau Gazelle, which has the riclges of loose skin over the nose well developed,inhabits the elevated country, commencing about thirty-five miles inland. It is found * Seventeen Trips through Somaliland. London, llowland Ward, 1895. 129 south of Golis, in Ogo and in the Haud, as well as in Ogo-Gudan, the country nearHargeisa where Guban rises gradually into Ogo. I have
The book of antelopes . elle.(Brit. Mus.) Capt. Swayne calls the former Antelope the Ogo, or Plateau Gazelle, andthe latter the Guban, or Lowland Gazelle, and describes the peculiarities ofthe present species as follows:— The Plateau Gazelle, which has the riclges of loose skin over the nose well developed,inhabits the elevated country, commencing about thirty-five miles inland. It is found * Seventeen Trips through Somaliland. London, llowland Ward, 1895. 129 south of Golis, in Ogo and in the Haud, as well as in Ogo-Gudan, the country nearHargeisa where Guban rises gradually into Ogo. I have shot large numbers of Gazelles for food at various times, and have alwaysnoticed that the plateau variety has a much thicker and longer coat than the is possibly the result of natural selection, as the high plains of the Ogo and theHaud, where it lives, are subject to sweeping cold winds, and the nights are very coldindeed. The altitude of these plains inhabited by the Plateau Gazelle is from three Tig. ff/Y,.tt/<jSS- / Head of adult female Spekes Gazelle.(Mr. P. Gillett, ) thousand to over six thousand feet, but doubtless they go much lower towards great steppe of Golis, with its prolongations east and west, which rises some fortymiles inland, and separates Guban, the low coast country, from Ogo, the high interiorcountry, forms the natural line of demarcation between these two A still more recent explorer of Somaliland, Mr. A. E. Pease, , ,has most kindly favoured us with some excellent notes on Spekes Gazelleand its sister species, which we cannot do better than reproduce. Mr. Peasehas also sent us along with his MS. remarks a sketch-map of the northernpart of Somaliland, in which the ranges of these two species are accuratelyshown. 130 He writes as follows:— Spekes Gazelle is called Dhero by the Somalis, who do not distinguish it byname from Gazella pelzelni. It is a Dhero, just as the other, and yet there is noSom
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