GIKAFFID^ 241 



Anim. p. 168, 1842 ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 170, 1843 ; 



Sundevall, K. SvensTia Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1842, p. 243, 1844; 



Heuglin, Fauna roth. Meer, p. 16, 1861, Reisen Nordost Africa, 



p. 133, 1877 ; Jentink, Gat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. {Mus. Pays-Bas, 



vol. ix), p. 156, 1887 ; Bryden, Nature and Sport in S. Africa, 



p. 129, 1897 ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, pp. 2 and 4. 

 Orasius camelopardalis, Oken, Lehrbuch Natwrgeschichte, vol. iii, 



pt. 2, p. 744, 1816 ; Wagner, Sitzher. h. Bayer. Ak. Wiss. vol. ii, 



p. 78, 1861. 

 Camelopardalis aethiopicus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Sox;. 1836, p. 134, 



nomen nudum, 

 Camelopardalis biturigum, Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, vol. 1 



p. 47, pi. ii, 1844 (vide Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 316). 



Typical locality Eastern Sudan or Southern Abyssinia, 

 A variable species in which the dark areas are never so 

 large or so red as in reticulata, while the light ones do not 

 form such a coarse and distinct network, and are very 

 frequently tawny instead of white. Typically the colour- 

 pattern consisting of a chestnut ground cut up into moderate- 

 sized and more or less rounded patches by a network of 

 light lines ; the shanks white ; and the anterior horn well 

 developed. From this type there is a gradation to one in 

 which the colour-pattern consist of small brownish or chest- 

 nut blotches on a fawn ground, the shanks fawn-coloured 

 and spotted down to the hoofs, and the anterior horn obsolete. 

 The following is a tentative " key " to the named local 

 races, based on males only : — 



A. Anterior horn well developed. 



a. Front shanks (in adult males) wholly white, 

 and hind ones mainly so. 

 a'. No occipital horns. 

 a-. Colour richer, 



a'. Spots large on upper part of fore- 

 legs G. c. camelopardalis. 



¥. Spots becoming suddenly small on 



upper part of fore-legs G. c. antiquorum. 



b^. Colour paler G. c.jieralta. 



6'. Occipital horns present. 



a*. Occipital horns small, a process over 



right orbit ; spots rufous brown ; 



sides of face not spotted above line 



connecting eye with angle of mouth G. c. cottoni. 



b*. Occipital horns larger, t^'pically no 



process over right orbit ; spots 



darker ; sides of face fully spotted 



in sub-adult males G. c. rothschildi. 



III. K 



