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MAMMALIA. 
tal 32. Head very long, with a bony sub-conic tubercle on the 
forehead, and two osseous peduncles covered with skin, and 
hairy, terminated by a tuft of bristles; upper lip entire; no lach¬ 
rymal sinuses; ears pointed; tongue rough, with corneous 
papillie; eyes large, prominent; neck extremely long, erect; 
withers greatly elevated ; legs slender, feet large, cleft; a callo¬ 
sity on the sternum ; four mammae. 
Camelopardalis giraffa. — The Giraffe. 
Plate XXX. fig. 5. 
Skin cream-coloured white, marked with dark brown irregu¬ 
larly-shaped spots or patches ; tail extending to the hough joint, 
terminated by a tuft of long dark brown hairs ; neck with a 
short mane, extending to the withers, in alternate black and 
white stripes. The tallest of mammiferous quadrupeds, being 
eighteen feet in height Inhabits Africa. 
Tribe IV. —Capruee. 
Horns persistent, generally annulated, having the prominences 
of the frontal bone covered with a horny case. 
Genus 6. — Antilope. — Cuvier. 
Generic Character. —Incisors ”, no canines, grinders ; to¬ 
tal 32. Horns common to both sexes, or in the male only ; 
bony core round and solid, sometimes compressed, generally 
standing beneath the frontal crest; variously inflected, for the 
most part with annulations, or a projecting spiral ridge, in some 
species bifurcated ; with a muzzle, half muzzle, or simple nos¬ 
trils ; lachrymal sinus in most species; eyes large ; ears gene¬ 
rally long, pointed ; with inguinal pores ; legs slender ; two or 
four teats. 
Antilope cervicapra. — The Common Antelope. 
Plate XXX. fig. 6. 
Fur fawn colour above, white beneath ; with tufts on the 
