100 



VEETEBEATA : MAMMALIA. 



high above the surface of the ground. By means of its 

 long neck and curious prehensile tongue it is able to 



FIG. 105. 



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Giraffe, Camelopardalis giraffa, Cuvier. 



secure leaves which grow at the height of twenty feet ! 

 Giraffes have their home in the deserts of Africa. 



Many of the artiodactyl ungulates as the Oxen, Musk 

 Ox, Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep, which together constitute 

 the great family of the Bovidse or Cavicornia have perma- 

 nent hollow horns which ensheathe a process of the frontal 

 bone, the process being a sort of core to the true horn, 



