Identifier: bookofantelopes318942scla (find matches)
Title: The book of antelopes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, ill Williams, Alpheus F., former owner. DSI National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Antelopes
Publisher: London : R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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20 miles. Travelling eastward from Hodayu they gradually appeared to grow less plentiful,and the last record I have of having seen one was about 150 miles from Hodayu.After this I saw no more until between Dagha Dalola and Mudug, about 130 milesfrom tbe former, in the Mijourten country. Here I was surprised to find them again veryplenti ul for three days, and I saw a few on the following three days, after which theyagain ceased. A week afterwards I found them again plentiful in the Marehan country,gradually diminishing in numbers as we travelled south; the last I saw was about40 miles before we struck the Webbe Shebeyli. On the homeward journey I came 225 across an odd pair now.and then in the south of the Ogaden country. I have markedvery roughly (see map, fig. 84) the belts within which I found them most plentiful.I do not remember having seen more than eight together. In the Mijourtcn andMarehan country I have found them quite close to Barao, and most plentiful in country Fig. 84.
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Map of Somaliland (showing the localities of the Dibatag). where there was very good grazing of gillop/ jalaalo/ and a fine feathery grass. Thecountry between Bair and Hodayu resembled the Haud. As regards the descriptionof the Dibatag, I can add nothing to that contained in Swaynes Seventeen Trips inSomaliland. 22G The specimens of Ammodorcas clarkei in the British Museum consist of ahead-skin with its skull from Burao Wells, presented by Mr. T. W. II. Clarke(the type of the species), and a stuffed male, the skins of a male and twofemales and their skulls from the same district, obtained in his secondexpedition, and presented by the same donor. There are also a skin andskeleton of a female from Darror Wells, on the Haud, presented by Mr. FordG. Barclay, and the skull of a male from near the Bur Dap Mountain,Central Somaliland, presented by Col. A. Paget. Our illustration of the male of this Gazelle, with the female in the distance(Plate LXXIII.), has been drawn and put on the stone f

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