SALTS DJK-DIK 



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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 fulvous or rufous fawn, scarcely more rufous on the 

 sides than on the back. Height at the shoulder, 1 4 or 15 inches. 

 Distribution. The Coast Range of Eastern Abyssinia, and adjacent 

 districts of Somaliland. 



Length 

 on front. 



a 



Owner. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild. 

 . V. Bell. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 

 . H. Boughton Leigh. 

 . P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 

 . J. B. Wheelwright. 

 . Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. 

 . Col. Ralph Vivian. 



P. C. Keytel. 



British Museum. 



- Owner's measurements. 

 1 Determination provisional. 



