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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Proboscis smaller and narrow; premaxillae long, reaching nasals; nasal 
bones longer, reaching as far forward as front of 
tooth row; white of belly bordered by fulvous 
kirki 
Large-Snouted Dikdik 
Rhynchotragus guentheri smithi 
Native Name: Rendile, sagari. 
Madoqua guentheri smithi Thomas, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 804. 
Range. —From the Rift Valley of southern Abyssinia 
south through the Lake Rudolf region to Lake Baringo 
and the Northern Guaso Nyiro River of British East Africa; 
west as far as the Nile watershed and east at least as far as 
the Lorian swamp. 
The type specimen of this race was collected by Doctor 
Donaldson Smith thirty miles southeast of Lake Stefanie, 
on the Abyssinian border, during his journey in 1898-9 
from Lake Rudolf to the Nile. Lonnberg, in 1907, de¬ 
scribed another race from Lake Baringo which he called 
nasoguttata owing to the proboscis showing white flecks. 
A series of specimens from Lake Baringo have been 
examined in the British Museum and found to be indis¬ 
tinguishable from smithi in size or coloration. 
This race is at once distinguishable from all other Brit¬ 
ish East African dikdiks by the enormous development 
of the proboscis, which is fully twice the size of that of 
other races, and by the absence of a fulvous lateral band 
to the under-parts, which are wholly white. The skull 
differs decidedly by its small nasal bones, which are much 
broader than long, and by the shortness of the premaxil¬ 
lary bones, which reach only half-way to the nasals. The 
narial chamber is of enormous extent, greatly exceeding 
in length the interorbital breadth of the skull. 
The dorsal coloration is buffy-gray vermiculated with 
blackish, giving a pepper-and-salt effect. The tail is haired 
above and is like the back in color, but below it is naked. 
The legs to the knees and hocks are similar to the back in 
color, but the lower part of the limbs are ochraceous-buff. 
The under-parts are pure white without any indication of 
a fulvous band along the sides. The lower and middle 
