DIK-DIKS 171 
Head of Salt’s Dik-dik. 
SALT’S DIK-DIK (Madoqua saltiana). 
This species, the Beni Israel of the Arabs, is the typical representa- 
tive of a group of tiny, slenderly built antelopes characterised by the 
elongated, trunk-like nose, of which the tip is almost entirely hairy, the 
tuft of hair on the crown of the head, the short and almost rudiment- 
ary tail, and the minute size of the lateral hoofs. In the present 
species the last tooth in the lower jaw lacks the third lobe found in 
almost all ruminants, the muzzle is but moderately developed, and the 
general colour yellowish or fulvous grey, scarcely more rufous on the 
sides than on the back. Height at the shoulder, 14 inches. 
Distribution—Vhe Coast Range of Eastern Abyssinia. 
Length  Circum- Tip to 
on front. ference. Tip. Locality. ener 
33 I} 13 ? Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
34 14 13 Abyssinia : : eee bells 
3 I I Do. 3 : . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
aR a Ig Do. : . H. Boughton Leigh. 
23 9: 13 Do. : : . Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 
23 1? 1d E. Sudan : : . Major Hi. H. S. Morant. 
23 a sie Abyssinia d : . Sir Victor Brooke’s Collection. 
24 15 ie North Kassala : . Col. Ralph Vivian. 
23 abs 12 ? British Museum. 
1 Determination provisional. 
