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Antilope (Neotragus) madoka, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 271, v. p. 350 (1827); A.Sm, 
S. Afr. Quart. J. ii. p. 218 (1834) ; Less. Compl. Buff. x. p. 295 (1836). 
Antilope madoqua, Waterh. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. (2) p. 40 (1838). 
Antilope hemprichiana, Ehr.in Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. text to pl. vil. (1838) ; 
Oken, Allg. Naturg.vii. p. 1362 (1838); Wagn. Schr. Saug. Suppl. iv. p. 455 (1844), 
v. p. 415 (1855); Gieb. Saug. p. 319 (1854). 
Neotragus hemprichianus, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 191 (1846) ; id. 
Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. 1. p. 143; Reprint, p. 67 (1848) ; 
Heugl. Ant. u. Biff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 9 (1863); Fitz. SB. 
Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 168 (1869) ; Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. i. p. 107 (1877). 
Antilope hemprichii, Riipp. N. Wirb. Abyss., Mamm. p. 25 (1835). 
Tragelaphus hemprichii, Riipp. Verz. Senck. Mus. p. 37 (1842). 
Madoqua hemprichii, Ogilb. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 137. 
Neotragus hemprichii, Brehm, Thierl. ii. p. 255 (1880). 
VERNACULAR Names :—Beni Israel at Massowa; Afro in Tigré; Endju in Tigrenya; 
Dik-dik at Kassala; Sequéré in Danak; Kéo in Djeng (Heuglin). 
Size large, height at withers 14-15 inches. Face rich rufous, crest of much 
the same colour. Neck coarsely lined cinereous grey. Back fulvous or 
rufous fawn, becoming scarcely more rufous on the sides. Chin and belly 
whitish, more or less tinged with fawn. Limbs pale rufous. Tail, as usual, 
like the back. 
' Skull with the nasals less shortened than in group B.  Anteorbital 
vacuities large. Premaxille, although rather more lengthened, yet not 
strikingly more so than in other Antilopes, and their upper profile but little 
curved. Basal length in a good male 3:75 inches, greatest breadth 2:27, 
muzzle to orbit 2°1, tip of nasals to tip of premaxille 1:3. 
Horns short, nearly straight, strongly ridged basally. 
Hab. Coast-range of Eastern Abyssinia. 
Our countryman Henry Salt, F.R.S., who travelled into the interior of 
Abyssinia at the beginning of the present century, and obtained many objects 
of Natural History, was the original discoverer of this species, which appro- 
priately bears his name. It will be found mentioned in the fourth Appendix 
to his ‘ Voyage in Abyssinia’ under the name “‘ Madoqua,” by which he says 
it is called in Tigré. Salt’s specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of 
Surgeons attracted the notice of M. de Blainville when he came to London in 
