178 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



examples of M. swaynei. Typically head, neck, and back 

 grizzled grey (the neck being always of this colour) ; rufous 

 of crown and back of ears deeper and richer than in M. 

 saltiana ; shoulders and flanks (or at least a band on the 

 flanks) rich bright rufous, markedly different from the faint 

 rufous of those of saltiana ; rufous encroaching considerably 

 on chest, but chin and rest of under-parts whitish (as usual) ; 

 legs rich rufous. Basal length of skull 3J inches (82 mm.) ; 

 maximum width 2^ (52 mm.) ; length from muzzle to orbit 

 1}| (46 mm.); do. from tip of nasals to tip of premaxillre 

 1 j 3 g inches (29 mm.). 



The following three races of this species are recognised,, 

 viz. : 



A. Hair of medium length; flanks bright rufous 



or cinnamon; back grizzled grey M. p. phillipsi. 



B. Hair longer, and coat rougher; back darker, 



looking dark reddish brown ; and neck alone 



grizzled grey M. p. harrarensis* 



c. Hair shorter and scantier, and coat sleeker ; 

 general colour grizzled grey, with only a 

 narrow rufous flank-band M. p. gubanensis* 



A. Madoqua phillipsi phillipsi. 



Madoqua phillipsi, Drake- BrocJcman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1911, p. 978 

 pi. Iv, fig. 3. 



Typical locality Dobwein, northern Somaliland. 



Hair of medium length; flanks bright rufous or cinnamon; 

 back grizzled grey. Drake-Brockman writes that in the 

 western part of the Haud the flanks in this dik-dik " are sa 

 red that at a short distance it looks rufous all over ; this is, 

 in marked contrast to the coast variety [M. p. gubanensis],. 

 which looks quite grey." 



88. 6. 20. 7. Skull, with horns, and skin, in spirit. 

 Dobwein, forty miles southward of Berbera, Somaliland. 

 Type. Presented ly E. Lort Phillips, Esq., 1888. 



88. 6. 20. 8. Skin, in spirit. Same locality. Same history. 



93. 12. 1. 8-9. Two skulls, with horns. Same locality ;, 

 collected by Lieut.-Col. H. G. C. Swayne. 



Presented ly Dr. P. L. Sdater, 1893. 



94. 2. 21. 19. Skull, with horns. Same locality and 

 collector. Same history.. 



