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length 3:7 inches, greatest breadth 1:95, muzzle to orbit 2°03, muzzle to 
tip of nasals 1:25. 
Horns thick, strongly ridged below, seldom exceeding 24 or 2? inches in 
length. 
Hab. E. Africa from Southern Somaliland to Ugogo. 
This Dik-dik was likewise first described by Dr. Giinther in 1880 from 
specimens transmitted to the British Museum by Sir John Kirk, who pro- 
cured them near Brava, on the coast of Southern Somaliland. Dr. Ginther 
drew special attention to the peculiar form of the elongated muzzle in 
this species. This feature, as will be seen by the illustration (fig. 29), 
Fig. 29. 
Head of Madoqua kirki. 
(P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 17.) 
which we are able to reproduce by his leave and that of the Zoological 
Society, is a prominent character in Madoqua kirki, as in the preceding and 
following species. 
The conformation of the skull of this species, as has been pointed out by 
us above, and previously much commented upon by Dr. Ginther, is another 
