Pelzeln's gazelle was recorded on the northern Somaliland coastal plain. Late nineteenth-century descriptions report a fawn-colored coat and animals using dry stony or sandy ground with low shrubs.
The late nineteenth-century description gives a brownish-fawn coat with a distinct light lateral band and a darker rufous-brown band, which is described as not black.
Nineteenth-century field accounts describe small groups on dry, stony ground or sandy undulating terrain among low shrubs. These are historical observations from the northern Somaliland coastal plain.
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