CAPEEOLI. 65 



Fam. 17. GIRAFFID^. 



GirafRna, Gray, Cat. Ungiil. B. M. p. 180. 



Giraffidfe, Graif, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821, xv. p. 307 ; Ann. 8f Maq. 



N. H. IBGO/xviii. p. 326. 

 Camelopardalidse, Sclater, Ann, 8f Mag. N. H. 1866, xviii. p. 403. 



1. GIRAFFA. 



Lips not grooved, entirely covered with hair, much produced 

 before the nostril, prehensile. Tongue very extensile. Neck very 

 long. Body short. Hind legs short ; false hoofs none. Tail 

 elongate, with a tuft of thick hairs at the end. 



Africa. Living on leaves of trees and shrubs, in herds. (Brisson, 

 R. A. i. 37, 1763 ; Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. 180, t. 23. f. 1, 2, skuU.) 



Camelopardalis, Rat/, Syn. 00. 



1. Giraffa camelopardalis. (The Giraflfe or Camelopard.) B.M. 



Ghaffa camelopardalis, Gray, Cat. Ungul. 

 (sknill). 



Hah. Africa, North, South, and Central. 



Ghaffa camelopardalis, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 180, t. 23. f. 1 , 2 

 (sknill). 



Suborder IV. CAPREOLI. 



Front of upper jaw callous, toothless. Horns placed be- 

 hind the orbit, deciduous, covered when young with a deci- 

 duous hairy skin, often wanting in the female sex^ sometimes 

 in both sexes. False hoofs distinct. 



CapreoU, EUqer, Prod. p. 104. 



Ungulata, Subfamily 11., Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. 31., p. 182. 



The males (and sometimes the females) are periodically furnished 

 with horns from the frontal bones, which, during development or 

 expansion, are covered with a vascular skin coated with down, the 

 skin falling off when the horns are perfect and solid, and the horns 

 themselves faUing off at the end of the season. In some few the 

 horns arise from the end of a permanent elongated bony process, 

 as in the Muntjac. 



The antlers (epocliocerata) of the deer differ from the horns of other 

 ruminants in being periodical developments of bone, which is at 

 first covered with a hairy skin, that dries up and falls off. (Gray, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.^lSGG, xviii. p. 326.) 



