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characters, being low at the condyles and having short 

 coronoid processes. The frontal horn is remarkably robust 

 and of great circumference, and is scarcely less in height 

 than in the Uganda race; but the skull itself at this point 

 is much less in height. 



In body size the reticulated giraffe is less than the 

 Uganda or Masai races. The height of the bull seldom or 

 never exceeds sixteen feet. The skulls are also proportion- 

 ately smaller and range from 23 to 24 inches in length. An 

 adult pair shot by Colonel Roosevelt on the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro had the following flesh measurements : head and body : 

 male, 12 feet 6 inches, female, 11 feet 11 inches; tail, 2 feet 

 II inches; hind foot from hock to hoof, 3 feet 4 inches; ear, 

 8>^ inches; height to crown of frontal horn, male, 15 feet 

 4 inches, female, 14 feet 8 inches. The color of the two spec- 

 imens is very similar, the male being but little darker than 

 the female. In body size they are very similar, the male 

 being greater only in body length and height and more 

 massive skull, but the length of the latter is slightly exceeded 

 by the female skull. The material examined has con- 

 sisted of the original type and some other specimens from 

 British East Africa at the British Museum, a mounted 

 specimen at the Carnegie Museum collected by Childs Frick 

 on the Northern Guaso Nyiro, and five specimens at the 

 National Museum from the latter locality. All of these speci- 

 mens agree in the rich rufous blotches and narrow white re- 

 ticulated ground-color of the neck and are in no way inter- 

 mediate with the Masai giraffe, which occupies the region just 

 south of Mount Kenia, from the south bank of the Tana River 

 southward. The variable Uganda race, however, approaches 

 the reticulated more closely in color, some specimens from 

 the Uasin Gishu being scarcely distinguishable. Specimens 

 from the region immediately south of Lake Rudolf will, no 

 doubt, be found to be fully intermediate in character. Some 

 of the skulls from the Northern Guaso Nyiro show well- 

 developed posterior or fifth horns, a character at one time 

 supposed to be a peculiarity of the Uganda race. In one 

 of these skulls the development of the fifth horn is greater 

 than in any specimens of the latter race. 



The reticulated giraffe has been recorded by A. H. 

 Neumann as far northward as the mouth of the Omo River 



