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guished naturalist who has lately vacated the post of Keeper of Zoology in 
the British Museum, is the third member of the genus found in Somaliland, 
but, as a rule, it inhabits a different district from M. swaynei and M. phillipsi, 
though Capt. Swayne thinks that in some cases their ranges may overlap. 
It belongs to the long-snouted section of the genus, like the two preceding 
species, but has its nose still more lengthened and proboscis-like. 
Mr. Lort Phillips, so far as we know, was the first of the explorers of 
Somaliland to bring home an example of this Dik-dik. But when that 
Fig. 30 a. 
Fig. 30. Skull of Madoqua quentheri (side view, reduced). 
(P. Z.S. 1894, p. 324.) 
Fig. 30a. Skull of Madoqua guentheri (from above, reduced). 
(P. Z.8. 1894, p. 325.) 
sportsman read his notes on the Somali Antelopes, obtained during his journey 
of 1884, before the Zoological Society, Sclater did not venture to determine 
the single immature skull that was obtained, and in his subsequent notes 
on the same specimen, read in 1885, he referred it with some doubt to 
M. kirki. 
It was not until 1894 that the additional examples of this Dik-dik received 
