THE DISCOVERY OF THE OKAPI 



of neck has been found in Miocene beds in 

 Greece, and is called the Helladotherium (Fig. 

 114). Naturalists were, therefore, deeply in- 

 terested when Sir Harry Johnston obtained, some 

 four years ago, from the borders of the Congo 

 State where the great Congo forest approaches 

 the river Semliki, which separates Congo-land 



Fig. 113. — Photograph of thf skull of the Samotherium, a 

 giraffe-like animal from the Miocene strata of the Greek 

 Island of Samos. 



from Uganda, a skin and two skulls of a new 

 animal — the Okapi — which he rightly surmised 

 to be a second living genus, or kind, allied to the 

 giraffe. I gave the name Okapia to Sir Harry 

 Johnston's new animal ; it is stuffed and 

 exhibited in the Natural History Museum. Like 

 the giraffe, it has paired hoofs and a rather long 



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