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the size of the horns and cements the whole upper surface 

 of the skull together, obliterating all the sutures and pro- 

 ducing odd knobs of bone in various places as well as over 

 the orbits and at the back of the skull. 



The type specimen of the Uganda race is the adult bull 

 shot by Major Powell-Cotton on the Uasin Gishu Plateau 

 and is now a mounted specimen in the British Museum. 

 The race has been named by Lydekker for the donor of 

 the specimen to the museum, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 of Tring. Sir Harry Johnston was the first sportsman to 

 collect specimens of this race and call the attention of 

 British naturalists to its apparent distinctive horn char- 

 acters. Some years later Major Powell-Cotton collected 

 complete specimens at the expenditure of great personal 

 labor and considerable cost in the Uasin Gishu Plateau, at 

 Lake Baringo, and in the Toposo country north of Mount 

 Elgon and east of the Nile station of Nimule. The specimen 

 from the latter locality was considered by Lydekker as a 

 different race, which he named cottoni. Its color differences, 

 however, are well within the range of Uasin Gishu specimens, 

 with which it is racially identical. The differences detected 

 by Lydekker were the absence of black in the neck blotches, 

 their larger size and more regular outline, which are the 

 very characteristics shown by the bull shot by Kermit 

 Roosevelt on the Uasin Gishu Plateau. Specimens like 

 these, which exhibit a narrow pattern of reticulation on the 

 neck, are quite intermediate between the blotched colora- 

 tion of the type specimen and the reticulated race. 



The Uganda giraffe is distinguishable from the other 

 equatorial races by its much more massive skull, the frontal 

 horn being especially high, and the main horns being as a 

 rule decidedly thick and massive. The body size is cor- 

 respondingly somewhat greater and exceeds that of any 

 other race except the South African, which it equals. 

 Adult bulls have a height of 17 or 18 feet. The body is 

 marked by large, regular spots separated by narrow reticu- 

 lations as in the reticulated, but the neck may be either 

 reticulated or blotched similarly to the Masai giraffe. The 

 legs below the hocks and knees are uniform cream-buff, 

 without darker markings, and are quite similar in this re- 

 gard to the typical Nubian race. The bulls are not con- 



