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equatorial Africa, the diversified conditions of which coun- 

 try seem to be especially favorable for the development of 

 differences in their coloration. A fourth race, congoensisy 

 typically from the headwaters of the Welle River near the 

 Nile watershed, may also be found within our area, but at 

 the present time no specimens from the west side of the Nile 

 are available for study in natural-history museums. 



Key to Races of camelopardalis 



Body marked by large blotches having even margins and separated by 

 narrow reticulations of lighter color 

 Ground-color of neck white and forming very narrow reticulations 

 between the large rufous blotches; sides of head and 

 throat to chin also reticulated; legs reticulated and 

 spotted below knee and hock; skull with frontal horn 

 and mandible at coronoid process low; body size 

 smaller reticulata 



Ground-color of neck bufF or ochraceous, not white; blotches tawny 

 or seal-brown, but seldom rufous; sides of head and 

 upper throat blotched; legs below knee and hock un- 

 spotted; frontal horn of skull very high; body size 

 larger rothschildi 



Body marked by small blotches having irregular or jagged margins; 

 legs spotted below knees and hocks with small dark 

 spots on an ochraceous or tawny ground-color; frontal 

 horn of skull smaller tippelskirchi 



Reticulated Giraffe 



Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata 



Native Names: Somali, giri ; Abyssinian, gerata. 



Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata De Winton, 1899, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 IV, p. 212. 



Range. — Desert region from the northern slopes of 

 Mount Kenia and the north bank of the Tana River north- 

 ward to southern Abyssinia and west as far as the east 

 shore of Lake Rudolf. 



The reticulated giraffe was described by De Winton 



