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they have been respectively referred, but also that there is a third 
Somali species, different again from the other two. I have therefore 
now to describe all three species as new. 
It happens most unfortunately that a good deal of the material 
before me has been collected by sportsmen who have not been trained 
as professional collectors, and who, in crossing the ranges of the three 
Somali species, have killed and brought home a number of skins and 
skulls, but the exact reference of these each to the other is not always 
quite certain. By care in the selection of type specimens, however, 
risk of error from this cause is minimised, much as it has added to my 
difficulties in working out the genus. 
The genus is readily divisible into two very distinct groups, of 
which WZ. saltiana and M. kirki are respectively typical ; the characters 
that divide them are practically those brought out by Dr. Giinther in 
his description of the latter,* at least so far as the skulls and teeth are 
concerned. 
The first species to be described belongs to the kzrkz section, and 
of this, which I propose to name in honour of Dr. Giinther, who first 
described the remarkable cranial peculiarities of the members of the 
section, the Museum possesses the following material :— 
a. Immature skull, ¢. Central Somaliland. EE. Lort-Phillips.  B.M. 
SO mang eo, 
6. Adult skull, ?. Central Ogaden, 3000 feet, Aug. 1893. Capt H. G.C. 
Swayne. 94.2.21.18. TZyfe. 
c, a. 2 ad. skins, 9. Central Ogaden, 3000 feet, Aug. 1893. Capt. 
HM. Gy Swayne: (9452-21. 10,07 
Taking as the type the skull 4, which in all probability belongs to 
one or other of the skins c, d, the species may be briefly diagnosed as :— 
MADOQUA GUENTHER], sp. n. 
Essential characters of JZ. kzrkz, but the lower, premaxillary part of 
muzzle much longer and narrower, while the nasals are much shorter. 
Tip of nasals, and also the front edge of the upper part of the secondary 
process of the maxilla, where it meets the nasals, level with the front 
edge of p. 4 instead of p. 2. Premaxille not reaching to nasals. 
Breadth of muzzle halfway between gnathion and p. 2 less than a 
Ef UP-Z5S. 1880; ps) 172 
+ The skull mentioned by Sclater, 7. 2Z..S. 1886, p. 504. The skin referred to at the same 
time, as is clearly shown by its size and other characters, did not really belong, as was supposed, 
to this skull, but to another younger one (86,11.19.3), and is referable to the species described 
below as AZ. phillipse. 
