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habit of depositing its dung frequently on the same spot, so that its usual 
haunts may be known by little piles of its droppings. It rarely leaves the 
shelter of the bushes during the day, and is, I suspect, somewhat nocturnal 
in its habits, as I have seen it feeding on leaves at the edges of the jungle in 
the dusk of evening. 
“* All the specimens of Salt’s Antelope seen in the Anseba valley differed 
from those of the coast and of the pass between Komayli and Senafé in their 
much more rufous colour. There is no distinction, so far as I can see, in 
size or shape. I am inclined to look upon this as an unimportant variation, 
the more so that, as previously noticed when speaking of the Hyraces, many 
animals, and especially mammals, have a tendency at times or in particular 
localities to assume arufous phase; so that the difference between rufous 
and grey, or rufous and brown, is one of the least characteristic and certain 
of specific distinctions.” 
Another good authority on Abyssinian Mammals, Theodor von Heuglin, 
has also told us that this little Antelope is very common in the Abyssinian 
coast-district, ranging north to the mountains of the Beni Amer, and west- 
wards as far as Takeh. He says that it is more plentiful in the bushes on 
the borders of the hill-district than on the plateau of the sea-coast, and that 
it ascends the mountains toa height of 5000 feet. Finally, as is recorded 
by Dr. Giglioli, the Italian naturalists Boutourline and Traversi, who went 
to Shoa in 1884, obtained specimens of this Antelope much further south, 
at Assab. It is, however, quite possible that these last-named examples 
may have belonged to one of the allied species which next follow. 
Salt’s Dik-dik is represented in the British Museum by a mounted pair in 
the Gallery, of which the male was obtained by Rtippell and the female by 
Sir William Cornwallis Harris. There are also in that Collection skins of 
both sexes procured by Mr. Blanford during the Abyssinian Expedition, and 
a skeleton and skull collected by Mr. Jesse on the same occasion. 
Our figure of this Antelope (Plate XXX.) was put on the stone by 
Mr. Smit from a water-colour drawing by Wolf. This drawing, which was 
prepared under Sir Victor Brooke’s direction, is now in Sir Douglas Brooke’s 
possession. 
December, 1895. 
