KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. N:O 5. 159 
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with regard to the comparatively long nasals. In Rh. kirkti GÖNTHER again the nasals 
are very much shorter than those of the present specimens, hardly measuring ”/a as 
much in length, and it has slender premaxillaries, »their ascending process sometimes 
ending just above the anterior tooth, and sometimes rising nearly or quite to meet 
the nasals.>»! The shape and size of the premaxillaries is also shown by GÖUNTHER”S 
figure of the skull of Rh. kirki. This is quite a considerable difference, in spite of 
the variability, from the condition found in the present specimens in which the pre- 
maxillaries are gradually widened so that their suture with the nasals amounts to 
6—8 mm. It is also unlike the condition in £h. k. Mndei THOMAS about which the 
describing author says: »premaxille just touching nasals above».? It is evident that the 
broad connection between the premaxillary and the nasal gives a greater firmness to 
the anterior portion of the skull which serves to support the proboscis than in such 
forms in which no such connection is to be found. The solidness of this portion of 
the skull is still more increased in my specimens from Guaso Nyiri by the premaxil- 
laries being somewhat thickened when compared with the thin transparent lamina 
of the maxillary and the lacrymale which form the lateral wall of the nasal cavity. 
Considering the structure of the anterior portion of the skull it appears suitable 
to regard these my Dikdiks as forming a subspecies of Rh. cavendishi which in con- 
sequence of its small size may be named minor. 
The general colour above is a grizzled yellowish grey produced by buffish yellow 
subterminal rings and dark brown tips to the hair, which basally are greyish brown. 
The middle of the back is more brownish. The neck looks paler greyish, and less yellowish 
because the subterminal rings are there dirty whitish. The flanks are less grizzled and 
paler than the back, about sand-coloured, sometimes more, sometimes less suffused with 
buffish. WSurroundings of the tail and posterior parts of hams pure ashy grey. Lower 
parts suffused with buff, only the middle of the belly and inside of hams being pure 
white. Lower neck pale yellowish grey, throat white in the middle, suffused with buff 
on the sides. Legs and middle of the face fulvous buff, sides of face paler almost sandy. 
A white spot around the eye. Anterior shorter portion of crest ringed with buffish 
white and dark brown, but the greater posterior portion dull fulvous buff with hardly 
conspicuous dark tips to some of the hairs. Ears sand-coloured on the outside, white 
within, with a black line along the upper half of the outer margin as well on the 
outer as on the inner side. 
The females have a smaller crest the hairs of which are very broadly tipped 
with black. 
1 Book of Antelopes, Vol. 2, p. 83 and p. 85 fig. 29. 
sAmn. dö Mag. Nat: Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. XX Pp. 243: 
