626 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Proboscis smaller and narrow; premaxillae long, reaching nasals; nasal 

 bones longer, reaching as far forward as front of 

 tooth row; white of belly bordered by fulvous 



kirki 



Large-Snouted Dikdik 



Rhynchotragus guentheri smithi 



Native Name: Rendile, sagari. 



Madoqua guentheri smithi Thomas, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 804. 



Range. — From the Rift Valley of southern Abyssinia 

 south through the Lake Rudolf region to Lake Baringo 

 and the Northern Guaso Nyiro River of British East Africa; 

 west as far as the Nile watershed and east at least as far as 

 the Lorian swamp. 



The type specimen of this race was collected by Doctor 

 Donaldson Smith thirty miles southeast of Lake Stefanie, 

 on the Abyssinian border, during his journey in 1898-9 

 from Lake Rudolf to the Nile. Lonnberg, in 1907, de- 

 scribed another race from Lake Baringo which he called 

 nasoguttata owing to the proboscis showing white flecks. 

 A series of specimens from Lake Baringo have been 

 examined in the British Museum and found to be indis- 

 tinguishable from smithi in size or coloration. 



This race is at once distinguishable from all other Brit- 

 ish East African dikdiks by the enormous development 

 of the proboscis, which is fully twice the size of that of 

 other races, and by the absence of a fulvous lateral band 

 to the under-parts, which are wholly white. The skull 

 differs decidedly by its small nasal bones, which are much 

 broader than long, and by the shortness of the premaxil- 

 lary bones, which reach only half-way to the nasals. The 

 narial chamber is of enormous extent, greatly exceeding 

 in length the interorbital breadth of the skull. 



The dorsal coloration is buffy-gray vermiculated with 

 blackish, giving a pepper-and-salt effect. The tail is haired 

 above and is like the back in color, but below it is naked. 

 The legs to the knees and hocks are similar to the back in 

 color, but the lower part of the limbs are ochraceous-buff. 

 The under-parts are pure white without any indication of 

 a fulvous band along the sides. The lower and middle 



