Neotragus hemprichianus, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 191 (1846); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 143; Reprint, p. 67 (1848); Heugl. Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 9 (1863); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 168 (1869); Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 107 (1877).
Antilope hemprichii, Rüpp. N. Wirb. Abyss., Mamm. p. 25 (1835).
Tragelaphus hemprichii, Rüpp. Verz. Senck. Mus. p. 37 (1842).
Madoqua hemprichii, Ogilb. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 137.
Neotragus hemprichii, Brehm, Thierl. iii. p. 255 (1880).
Vernacular Names:—Beni Israel at Massowa; Atro in Tigré; Endju in Tigrenya; Dik-dik at Kassala; Sequéré in Danak; Kéo in Djeng (Heuglin).
Size large, height at withers 14–15 inches. Face rich rufous, crest of much the same colour. Neck coarsely lined cinereous grey. Back fulvous or rufous fawn, becoming scarcely more rufous on the sides. Chin and belly whitish, more or less tinged with fawn. Limbs pale rufous. Tail, as usual, like the back.
Skull with the nasals less shortened than in group B. Anteorbital vacuities large. Premaxillæ, although rather more lengthened, yet not strikingly more so than in other Antilopes, and their upper profile but little curved. Basal length in a good male 3·75 inches, greatest breadth 2·27, muzzle to orbit 2·1, tip of nasals to tip of premaxillæ 1·3.
Horns short, nearly straight, strongly ridged basally.
Hab. Coast-range of Eastern Abyssinia.