58 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS RETICULATA de Winton. 
1899. Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata DE W1NTON, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 
7, vol. 4, p. 212. September. (Loroghi Mountains, British East Africa; 
type in British Museum.) 
1910. Giraffa reticulata Rooseve tt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 475; 
London ed., p. 487. 
1911. Gliraffa] reticulata nigrescens LYDEKKER, Nature, vol. 87, p. 484. October 
12. (British East Africa, probably the district north of Mount Kenia; 
type in British Museum.) 
1914. Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata RoosevELtT AND HEtuer, Life-Hist. 
African Game Anim., vol. 1, p. 304. 
Specimens.—Five, from localities as follows: 
British East Arrica: Koya Water, Marsabit Road, 2 skulls 
(Rainey, Heller); Lakiundu River, 1 skull (Heller); Northern Guaso 
Nyiro River, 2, with skulls, skins, leg and foot bones (T. Roosevelt). 
The largest male collected by Roosevelt on the northern Guaso 
Nyiro has been mounted for the exhibition series. 
GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS ROTHSCHILDI Lydekker. 
1903. Gliraffa] camelopardalis rothschildi LyDEKKER, Anim. Life and the World of 
Nature, vol. 2, p. 122. October. (Guas Ngishu Plateau, British East 
Africa; type in British Museum.) 
1910. Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Houtistrr, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 
vol. 56, No. 2, p.1. March 31. 
1910. Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Roosevett, African Game Trails, Amer. 
ed., p. 476; London ed., p. 487. 
1914. Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi RoosrveLY AND HELLER, Life-Hist. 
African Game Anim., vol. 1, p. 314. 
Specimens.—Four, from localities as follows: 
British Kast Arrica: Guas Ngishu Plateau, 2, including one 
complete specimen and one skull only (White, Barker); Kampiya 
bibi, Guas Ngishu Plateau, 1, skin and skeleton (K. Roosevelt); 
Lake Baringo, 1 skull and mounted skin (received from Rowland 
Ward). 
Mr. John Jay White, who collected one of the largest male speci- 
mens in this series, found giraffes in good numbers on the Guas 
Ngishu Plateau in 1908. Herds numbering up to a dozen or fifteen 
animals were frequently seen, and one herd of about 75 was noted. 
This largest herd divided, however, about 25 animals going in one 
direction and the remainder in another.! 
1 Hollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 2, p.2. March 31, 1910. 
