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thereby difter from rothscMIdi) in having the triangular 

 space between the eye and the nostril devoid of spots, but 

 in adult males of tippelskirchi the ground-colour of the 

 whole head is dirty greyish white, whereas in tJiornicrofti 

 the forehead is chestnut or umber brown, deepening into 

 black at the tips of the horns, which are grey in the 

 Kilimanjaro race. 



0. 4. 3. 1. Portion of skin from hind part of body. East 

 bank of Loangwa River, N. E. Ehodesia. 



Presented hy Dr. P. L. Sclatcr, 1900. 



7. 2. 4. 5. Skull, female. Same locality. 



Presented ly C. B. C. Storey, Esq., 1907. 



10. 10. 17. 1. Skin, mounted. Petauke district, N. E. 

 Rhodesia. Type. Presented hy If. T/wrnicroft, Esq., 1910. 



J.— Giraffa camelopardalis eongroensis. 



Girafta camelopardalis congoensis, Lydekker, Hutchinson'' s Animal 

 Life, vol. ii, p. 83, 1903, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 219, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 362, 1908; Troiiessart, La Nature, 

 vol. XXX, p. 341, 1908 ; Schouteden, Rev. Zool. Africaine, vol. ii, 

 p. 134, 1912. 



Typical locality Dungu, north-east of the Welle River, 

 Belgian Congo.* 



Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren, Belgium. 



Characterised by the large size and sub-quadrangular 

 form of the body-spots, which show no tendency to split up 

 into stars, the fully spotted shanks — especially the hind pair 

 — of which the ground-colour is grey-fawn, and the well- 

 developed anterior horn. The sides of the face are well 

 spotted, and the terminal tuft of the tail is unusually large. 



No specimen in the collection. 



K.— Giraffa camelopapdalis infumata. 



Giraffa infumata, Noack, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 356, 1908. 

 Giraffa camelopardalis infumata, Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, 

 Stipj)l. p. 20, 19U. 



Typical locality Zambesi Valley, Barotsiland. 



Named on the evidence of a pair of living specimens — 



* In the original description the locality is given Katanga ; the 

 error is corrected by Schouteden, loc cit. 



