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Madoqua saltiana hararensis

Dik-dik de Harar (Sp), Harar Dikdik, Rotbauchdikdik (G), Dik-dik de Harar (F).

DESCRIPTION The Harar dik-dik is about the same size as the Swayne and Phillips dik-diks. It has the reddest coloration of all dik-diks. In the eastern part of its range, the flanks and shoulder patches are bright reddish brown (much darker than the pale orange flares of the Phillips dik-dik), contrasting sharply with the grizzled gray of the cheeks, neck and rump. The reddish color spreads across the back to give it a grizzled ginger coloration. In the western part of its range it loses the contrast, becoming browner overall. The top of the face, the head tuft and the legs are reddish. The underparts are white.

DISTRIBUTION South of the Chercher Mountains in Ethiopia, extending from the Webi Shebeli River eastward to the Somali border, and into northwestern Somalia perhaps as far as the Golis Mountains. The extent of its range in the Ogaden region south and southeast of the Chercher Mountains is not known.

Separated from the Swayne dik-dik to the west by the Webi Shebeli River, and from the Cordeaux dik-dik to the north by the Chercher Mountains. Blends with the Phillips dik-dik somewhere south of the Golis Mountains in Somalia.