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developed ; grey of neck sharply defined from rufous of nape ; nostrils 

 normal. Type, Salt's dik-dik. 



2. RhyncJiotragiis. — Three lobes to last lower tooth ; trunk well 

 developed ; grey of neck connected with rufous of head by a third 

 colour ; nostrils circular. Type, Kirk's dik-dik. 



The beni Israel, or Salt's dik-dik, the typical representative of the 

 whole group, takes its English name from Henry Salt, the Abyssinian 

 traveller, by whom it was discovered in the early part of the nineteenth 

 century. A native of the Coast Range of Eastern Abyssinia, it 

 stands from 14 to 15 inches at the shoulder, and, in addition to the 

 group -features already mentioned, is characterised by the general 

 yellowish or fulvous grey of the back, which becomes scarcely more 

 rufous on the flanks ; the neck being greyish, the face and limbs 

 faintly rufous, and the under-parts whitish. The maximum horn-length 

 is 3^ inches. 



According to Dr. W. T. Blanford {Geology ami Zoology of 

 Abyssinia), this dik-dik is seldom found at elevations over 6000 feet. 

 " It inhabits bushes, keeping much to heavy jungle on the banks of 

 water-courses, and is usually single, or in pairs, either a male and 

 female or a female and young being found together ; less often the 

 female is accompanied by two younger ones, which remain with her 

 until full grown. ... It rarely leaves the shelter of the bushes during 

 the day, and is, I suspect, somewhat nocturnal in its habits, as I have 

 seen it feeding on leaves at the edges of the jungle in the dusk of 

 evening." 



PHILLIPS'S DIK-DIK 



{Madoqua phillipsi) 

 Sakaro Gol Ass, SOMALI 



This species, which was named after Mr. E. Lort Phillips by 

 Mr. O. Thomas in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1894 

 (p. 327), is somewhat smaller than the beni Israel, and has the back 

 rufous, finely grizzled with ashy grey, and the sides, shoulders, and 

 limbs bright rufous, as compared with the faint rufous of the shoulders 

 and limbs in Madoqua saltiana. 



This is the common dik-dik of northern Somaliland, where it 



