. The book of antelopes . Fig. 30. Skull of Madoqua guentheri (side view, reduced). (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 324.)Fig. 30 a. Skull of Madoqua guentheri (from above, reduced). ( 1894, p. 325.) sportsman read his notes on the Somali Antelopes, obtained during his journeyof 1884, before the Zoological Society, Sclater did not venture to determinethe single immature skull that was obtained, and in his subsequent noteson the same specimen, read in 1885, he referred it with some doubt toM. kirki. It was not until 1894 that the additional examples of this Dik-dik received 91 by the British Museum fro
. The book of antelopes . Fig. 30. Skull of Madoqua guentheri (side view, reduced). (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 324.)Fig. 30 a. Skull of Madoqua guentheri (from above, reduced). ( 1894, p. 325.) sportsman read his notes on the Somali Antelopes, obtained during his journeyof 1884, before the Zoological Society, Sclater did not venture to determinethe single immature skull that was obtained, and in his subsequent noteson the same specimen, read in 1885, he referred it with some doubt toM. kirki. It was not until 1894 that the additional examples of this Dik-dik received 91 by the British Museum from Capt. Swayne enabled Thomas to vindicate itsclaim to stand as a distinct species. Capt. Swayne, in his lately published Seventeen Trips to Somaliland,gives us the following notes on his experiences with the Gussuli, as theSomalis call this Antelope :— I came on Gussuli for the first time about adays journey south of Seyyid Mahomeds village in the Malingiir tribe, andfound it to exist all over the Rer Amaden country. I
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