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E.— GirafFa camelopardalis rothschildi. 



" Five-horned Giraffe," Thotnas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol, ii, p. 474; 

 Johnston, Uganda Protectorate, vol. i, pp. 26 and 377, 1902. 



" Giraffe," Eideivood, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 151, figs. 4, 8 

 and 9; Lanhester, ibid. 1907, p. 110, figs. 33 and 34. 



Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, Lydekker, Hutchinson's Animal 

 Life, vol. ii, p. 122, 1903, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 210, 

 1905, vol. i, p. 121, Gatne Animals of Africa, p. 358, 1908 ; 

 Powell-Cotton, Unknoivn Africa, pi. facing p. 194, 1904 ; 

 Duerden, Eec. Albany Mus. vol. ii, p. 95, 1907 ; Trouessart, 

 La Nature, vol. xxx, p. 341, 1908 ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. vol. xxvi, p. 157, fig. 2, 1909 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 ed. 6, p. 116, 1910 ; Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 

 1910 ; Hollister, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 1, 

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

 ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 99, 1911, parti m ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. 

 Madrid Mus. p. 129, 1912. 



Typical locality Guasin-gisha Plateau, to the south-east 

 of Mount Elgon and west of Lake Baringo, B. E. Africa, 

 nearly 1° north of the equator ; the two areas being separated 

 by the Elgeyo Range. 



Colour (in male) very dark, the spots being nearly black, 

 and showing a tendency to split up into stars, as indicated 

 by lighter tripartite radiating lines in the larger ones ; light 

 interspaces (ground-colour), except on face, deep yellowish 

 fawn, forming a network of narrow lines on body, but 

 becoming much broader on neck, where the spots may 

 assume a more irregular and somewhat jagged outline ; sides 

 of face, extending posteriorly in a triangular area behind 

 ears (the backs of which are wholly white), whitish — and 

 thus sharply contrasting with the neck — and fully spotted 

 with black in subadult males, although in old males (fig. 40, A, 

 p. 239) these more or less completely disappear above a line 

 connecting the angle of the mouth with the eye; a spot 

 on legs above knees and hocks chestnut, such light spots 

 extending farther up on the hind than on the front 

 legs; shanks white and unspotted. Skull with front horn 

 strongly developed, and a pair of occipital horns behind the 

 main pah-; and there may be a pair of orbital horns.* 



In subadult females (if rightly associated) the spots are 

 reddish chestnut, and irregular, jagged, and somewhat star- 



* In a specimen seen by the writer in 1914. 



