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thorn bush country. They inhabit waterless parts and 
depend a good deal on the heavy dew for moisture, but 
they like the thick bushes along the banks of water¬ 
courses. They possess elongated hairy noses and a 
tuft of hair on their crowns : the horns are short, 
straight, almost vertical, and possessed by the male only. 
The head of the Oik-dik, Madoqna gueiitheid. 
The smallest antelope in East Africa. Dik-dik (sometimes called 
Dig-dig) is the native name. Its chief peculiarity is its long 
hairy snout and short tail. 
The skull is also remarkable for the shortness of the 
nasal bones and the large size of the nasal chamber. 
The dik-diks are about fourteen inches high at the 
shoulders, with a body no bigger than that of a 
rabbit. These small antelopes were discovered by 
Henry Salt, who travelled in Abyssinia in the early part 
