The book of antelopes . Fie. 82 Horns of Gazella soemmerringi berberana, S & 2 •(From specimens in the British Museum.) Examples of Gazella soemmerringi are recorded by Sundevall as beingcontained in the extensive collections received by the Stockholm Museumwhich were made by the Swedish traveller Hedenborg in Sennaar, but theexact localities are not specified. 199 So much is all we have to say about the smaller and typical form of thisspecies originally discovered by Ruppell. But about the larger subspecies ofNorthern Somaliland, which has been named berlerana by Herr Matschie,we are able
The book of antelopes . Fie. 82 Horns of Gazella soemmerringi berberana, S & 2 •(From specimens in the British Museum.) Examples of Gazella soemmerringi are recorded by Sundevall as beingcontained in the extensive collections received by the Stockholm Museumwhich were made by the Swedish traveller Hedenborg in Sennaar, but theexact localities are not specified. 199 So much is all we have to say about the smaller and typical form of thisspecies originally discovered by Ruppell. But about the larger subspecies ofNorthern Somaliland, which has been named berlerana by Herr Matschie,we are able to give greater details from information supplied by the manynaturalists and sportsmen who have of late years visited the country which itinhabits. Although it does not appear that there is any discontinuitybetween the ranges of these two forms, and it is quite likely that inter-mediate specimens may occur where the two forms meet, we cannot butallow that Herr Matschie was justified in assigning a subspecific name to theSout
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