THE SOMALI DIK-DIKS. 983 



■Shebeleh rivei% very nearly reaching to the coast in the Hawiya 

 country, as thousands of their skins are yearly sold in the market 

 in Mogadishu by the Hawiya Somalis. They are either caught in 

 native traps or shot with bow and arrow. 



Rhynchotragus kirkii Giinth. 



Kirk's Dik-dik, which was named so far back as 1880, inhabits 

 only the most southern angle of the Somali country east of the 

 Juba River; it, however, extends across that river and south- 

 wards into British East Africa as far as Kilimanjaro. How far 

 north it extends into Somaliland proper I am unable to say, as the 

 material at present availal^le is insufficient. 



The type specimen came from Brava on the Benadir coast of 

 Italian Somaliland, but my collector failed to get me any specimens 

 from Mogadishu, so I conclude that it does not extend farther 

 north than this, being replaced on the coast by 21. philUpsi and 

 in Central Somaliland by R. guentheri, of which hundreds of skins 

 are offered for sale in the ma.rket in Mogadishu. I have only 

 been able so far to procure the skins without head-skins or skulls 

 from that locality, so am unable to definitely state whether the 

 skins belong to R. guentheri or an allied form ; they certainly 

 appear to agree with my specimens of the former. 



Rhyncotragus cordeauxi Dr. -Br. 



This Dik-dik, which was named by me last year, should really 

 be included among the Abyssinian Dik-diks, together with 

 R. erlangeri, M. ^ykillipsi hatxirensis, and R. guentheri loroughtoni^ 

 but like M. phillijjsi harciTensis^ it will probably be found to 

 inhabit the north-eastern part of the Esa country. 



It was first obtained by me in the bush country to the west and 

 north-west of Dirre Dawa, and is at present, so far as I am aware, 

 recorded only from the Danakil country: 



I traced it as far west as the GurguiTa River, one of the 

 tributaries of the Hawash, and it is this latter river that marks 

 out its westerly limit ; the northern edge of the Harrar and 

 Arussi plateaux mark its southern limits, but how far north 

 and north-east it strays I am at present unable to definitely 

 state. 



This is a fine species, and most resembles in appearance 

 M. phillipsi guhanensis, only it is a much bigger animal. 



Rhyncotragus erlangeri ISTeum. 



Erlanger's Dik-dik hails from Eastern Abyssinia. As one 

 descends from the great Arussi plateau on the low-lying country, 

 towards the east, called by the Gallas " Gamogi," this is the 

 Dik-dik one finds. 



If a line be drawn on the map between Harrar in the north 

 and Ginir in the south, this line will cut through an acacia-bush 



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