252 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



coloured and spotted down to hoofs, but in some old 

 individuals whitish and more or less free from spots. Skull 

 with the anterior horn apparently less developed than in 

 preceding races, and in some instances tending to disappear. 



99. 10. 12. 1. Skull and skin, immature female. Eombo 

 Valley, Kilimanjaro. Presented by E. N. Buxton, Esq., 1899. 



99. 10. 12. 2. Skull, immature. Same locality. 



Same history. 



1. 7. 21. 1. Head and neck, young, mounted. Kili- 

 manjaro. Purchased {Ward), 1901. 



8. 11. 18. 1. Portion of skin. Kilimanjaro. 



Presented hy J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1903. 



4. 11. 2. 2. Skin, immature female, mounted. British 

 East Africa. Presented hy T. F. V. Buxton, Esq., 1904. 



8. 7. 5. 1. Head and neck, mounted. B. E. Africa. 



Presented by Capt. Houblon, 1908. 



9. 11. 27. 1. Skull and head and skin. Sultan Hamad, 

 Uganda Eailway, B. E. Africa. 



Presented by A. B. Pcrcival, Esq., 1909. 



I.— Giraflfa camelopardalis thornicpofti. 



Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti, Lydehher, Nature, vol. Ixxxvii, 

 p. 484, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 771, pi. Ixxxvi. 



Typical locality Petauke district, N. E. Rhodesia. 



Characterised by the low and conical anterior horn, the 

 grey colour and scattered spotting of the sides of the face, 

 the chestnut-brown forehead, deepening into black on the 

 tips of the horns, the absence of a distinctly stellate pattern 

 in the neck and body spots, which are light brown on a 

 yellowish fawn ground, and the uniformly tawny colour of 

 the shanks. It differs from tijypelskirchi by the more 

 compact frontal horn, the brown, in place of grey, forehead, 

 and the uniformly fawn shanks, the latter being often whitish 

 in old males of tippelsklrchi, but fawn and spotted in females 

 and young males.* This race and tippelskirchi agree (and 



* Vide M. de Rothschild and H. Neuville (Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 9, vol. xiii, pp. 124, 129), who state that in the East African 

 giraffe which they describe as rothscJiildi, but which — despite the 

 locality whence it is stated to come^-has all the characteristics of 

 tippelskirchi, these age and sex differences are observable. 



