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SOMALILAND 
The Abyssinian Duiker (Cephalophus abyssinicus). 
Collected by Mr. Gilfet at Sheik Mahomed. 
Colour grizzled grajush-brown. 
Swayne’s Dik-dik {Madoqua swaynei). 
Somali name : guyu. 
Found for the most part on rocky ground close to water. Localities : Well 
Wall, Wardare, Galadi (Midjertain country), Sinnadogho (Marehan 
country), and Joh (Haweea country). 
Length of male, 19^ inches from tip of nose to end of tail. This is the 
smallest of the three Somali dik-diks. Colour: body same as Gunther’s 
dik-dik, but has slightly red-fawn-coloured sides, but not so red nor so 
much of it as in Phillip’s dik-dik. Length of horns, 2^ inches and 
inches. 
Kirk’s Dik-dik {Madoqua hirld.) 
Found by Sir John Kirk at Brava coast, South-East Somaliland. 
Gray ; not much rufous on sides. Measurements of horns, 2^ inches. 
Phillip’s Dik-dik {Madoqua phillipsi). 
Somali name, Gol ass. 
Found from the maritime plain in Guban right away to the Webbi Shebeyli ; 
common in the west, in the Boorgha country, to Sinnadogho, in the Mare- 
han country, in the south-east. 
Length of males, 21^ inches ; length of horns, 2^ inches, 2^ inches, and 2i 
inches. Females hornless. Neck and cheeks gray ; back graj’-brown ; 
sides of body have broad bands of bright rufous ; legs fawn-coloured ; 
snout and front of face reddish-fawn ; belly white ; back of ears fawn ; 
under neck fawn. This animal is larger than Madoqua swaynei, but 
smaller than Madoqua guentheri: It is the commonest of the four dik- 
diks, and found nearly all over Somaliland. 
Gunther’s Dik-dik {Madoqua guentheri). 
Somali name : gussuli. 
Same localities as Madoqua swaynei — Well Wall, Wardare, Galadi, Sinna- 
dogho, and Joh (Haweea country, south-east). At Sinnadogho I shot the 
three different species of dik-dik. 
Length of male, 21^ inches to 23 inches; length of horns, 3^ inches, 3J 
inches, 3 inches, 2f inches. Females hornless. These tiny antelopes, 
which run about in triplets and weigh less than a hare, are the largest of 
the dik-dik, and can easily be distinguished from the two others by the 
extraordinary tapir-like snout or ‘ Koman ’ nose, the use of which has 
never been satisfactorily explained. Colour of body gray ; belly white ; 
no red in body as in other two ; long hairs between horns ; back of ears 
and snout fawn ; legs fawn ; chin white. 
The Baira Antelope {Oreatragus megalotis). 
Ali-Mahan, Gadabursi country, Wagar Mountain in the Gulis Range, and 
on Negegr, forty miles south-south-east of Berbera (Swaynb). 
Major H. Swayne says of this antelope : ‘ Nearly as large as an ordinary 
plateau gazelle, but reddish. Small straight horns. Shy and difficult to 
shoot.’ 
