“We found here (on the Bur Dab range) an old man living entirely alone, subsisting on gum and snared game. He was very clever at catching ‘Gerenok,’ or Waller’s Gazelle, by means of a cord made of the fibre of the ‘hig’ aloe. At one end of the cord a running noose, 6 inches in diameter, was laid round the rim of a cup-shaped hole scooped in the ground, and supported by a series of small pegs. Near the noose was attached a fine but strong thread, the other end of which was fastened to a springy branch of a tree bent down for the purpose. The noose was prevented from being dragged out of the hole by two pieces of wood laid crosswise. The loose end of the cord was either tied to an adjacent tree or pegged firmly to the ground, and all traces of the trap neatly covered with leaves and sand. The Gazelle is, of course, caught by the leg, and once the noose is drawn tightly round above the hoof there is no escape; but it must need large experience of the haunts of the game to know where to set these gins. The old man had thirty or forty constantly set, and said he got a Gazelle once every four or five days.” Mr. Alfred Pease has kindly summarized his field-notes on the Gerenuk in the following paragraphs:-- “The Gerenuk is the commonest and most evenly distributed of all the Somali Antelopes, if we exclude the little Dik-diks, but it is by no means the least interesting. It is as peculiar as it is beautiful. At rest it is graceful, when running grotesque, and when feeding most curious in its pose. But its colouring of red and purple-grey, its reach of view, and its motions all wonderfully facilitate its power of escaping observation. At 300 yards I have often had my eye on them feeding, unable almost to distinguish them from their likeness to stems of trees and dead thorn. They are tree-feeders, and their length of leg, body, and giraffe-like necks enable them to crop the leaves from bush-trees at a great height from the ground. When thus occupied in browsing they are often absolutely vertical, and for minutes together motionless, save for the lips and head, which are buried in the foliage. The male alone carries horns, varying in length and circumference, which reach, in fine specimens, 15½ inches measured along the curve. The female is smaller and slighter than the male. On being disturbed they often remain so motionless that it is difficult to detect them in the bush, and when they make off they do so very quickly, and are immediately transformed from tall elegant animals with heads proudly carried to clumsy crouching fugitives with outstretched heads and necks. I have noticed when in flight they generally take a line more or less parallel to the hunter, as if they did not consider it safe to lose all knowledge of their pursuer’s whereabouts in the bush. With this object apparently they will usually keep