Type _Dorcatragus_, Noack, Zool. Auz. xvii. p. 202 (1894) D. MEGALOTIS. Size very small, smaller than in any Gazelle. Ears large. Tail short. False hoofs minute; horny part of main hoofs short, but the internal pad to the hoof broad and thick; position of limbs in standing almost as in _Oreotragus_. No Gazelline head-markings, but a dark lateral band present on the sides of the body. Skull broad and short. Nasals short and premaxillæ long, the structure in this region recalling that in _Madoqua_. Anteorbital region with a very small and shallow lacrymal fossa. Bullæ large and inflated. Premolars 3/3, the anterior very large. Horns short, straight or faintly curved forwards, not unlike those of _Raphiceros_, and quite different from those of any true Gazelle. Female hornless. _Range of the Genus._ Restricted to Somaliland. One species only. [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LXXV. _Smit del. et lith._ The Beira. DORCOTRAGUS MEGALOTIS. _Hanhart imp._ _Published by R. H. Porter._] 109. THE BEIRA. DORCOTRAGUS MEGALOTIS (MENGES). [PLATE LXXV.] _Behra_, =Menges=, Peterm. Mitth. xxxi. p. 454 (1885) (Hekebo plateau). _Beira_, Scl. P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 102, 118; =Swayne=, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 308. _Oreotragus megalotis_, =Menges=, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 131 (1894); =Swayne=, Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, p. 321 (1895). _Dorcotragus megalotis_, =Noack=, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 202 (1894); =Hoyos=, Zu den Aulihan, p. 186 (1895); =Elliot=, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 135 (1897) (Hargeisa). VERNACULAR NAME:--_Beira_ of Somalis (_Swayne_). Size about as in the Steinbok or Grysbok; height at withers 20 inches in an adult male. General colour of neck and back a peculiar purplish grey, very finely grizzled with white, the extreme tips of the hairs being this latter colour. Scarcely a trace of a light lateral band, but a distinct dark one present, brownish, passing quite across the shoulder, and extending behind on to the sides of the rump. Belly not, as is usual, pure white throughout, but only white on the axillæ and groins, the remainder pale yellowish fawn, or even orange-fawn, this colour also extending on to the outer sides of the forearms and thighs; rest of limbs becoming darker fulvous to the hoofs. Head bright fulvous, quite different to the neck; area round eyes white, but no Gazelline facial streaks present. Tail short and rather bushy, coloured like the back, without darker tip. Measurements of an old male skull:--Basal length 5·35 inches, greatest breadth 3·15, muzzle to orbit 3·2. Horns ordinarily from 4 to 5 inches in length, the longest in the British Museum collection, one of Capt. Swayne’s, attaining 5½ inches. _Hab._ Northern Somaliland; hills along the northern edge of the Haud.