GIEAFFID.^ 



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Giraflfa reticulatus, LanJcester, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 125. 

 ?) Giraffa hagenbecki, Knottnerus-Meyer, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxv, p. 800, 

 1910; M. de Rothschild and Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 12, 1911 (as a form of reticulata) ; Lydekker, 

 Game Animals of Africa, Suppl. p. 20, 1911. 



Typical locality southern Somaliland, whence the range 

 extends to Gallaland, and, through the Lake Kudolf district, 

 to the Guaso-nyiro, British East Africa, and perhaps to 

 Kenia. 



General colour typically deep liver-red, marked with a 

 coarse net-w^ork of narrow white lines, the subquadrangular 



Fig. 39. — Skull of Netted Gibaffe {Giraffa reticulata). 

 From de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907.* 



meshes of which gradually decrease in size towards the 

 head, although they are everywhere large ; on the head the 

 red areas change to rounded chestnut spots on a fawn ground ; 

 backs of ears white, as are shanks (in adult males), the 

 hind pair more or less spotted superiorly, especially in 

 females. Anterior horn well developed (fig. 39). The 

 essential feature of the colour-pattern is, so to speak, the 

 superposition of a coarse white network on a liver-red 

 ground, so that it cannot be described as spotted. 



* There named G. camelopardalis. 



