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sistently darker than the cows, but vary from seal-brown to 

 tawny in coloration, independent of age. 



The adult bull shot by Kermit Roosevelt had a height 

 of 17 feet 3 inches to the top of the horns. The other 

 flesh measurements of this specimen were: length of head 

 and body, 12 feet 10 inches; tail, 2 feet 10 inches; hind 

 foot from the hock to the hoof, 4 feet i inch; ear, 8}4 

 inches. Skull length, 25 >i inches. A skull from Lake 

 Baringo in the National Museum has a length of 26 inches 

 and is the maximum in size examined. Two female skulls 

 from the Uasin Gishu at the British Museum measure 23 and 

 233^ inches, respectively. • Powell-Cotton records a height of 

 17 feet 3 inches for his largest bull from the Uasin Gishu. 



The Uasin Gishu Plateau represents the most southern 

 as well as the highest altitude attained by this giraffe. 

 It is essentially a Nile race which has made its way east- 

 ward to the headwaters of the 'Nzoia River on the Uasin 

 Gishu Plateau, and then spread over the watershed and 

 down into the Rift Valley at Lake Baringo, east of which 

 it meets the reticulated race. The race occurring on the 

 west bank of the Nile may be congoensis, the typical speci- 

 men of which came from the head of the Welle River 

 within close proximity of the Nile watershed of the Bahr el 

 Ghazal. Giraffes were seen near Rejaf by Colonel Roose- 

 velt, at Lado Station by Major Powell-Cotton, and they 

 have also been reported in the vicinity of Mahaji west of 

 the Albert Nyanza by sportsmen. What race occurs in 

 the Lado Enclave district is at present unknown, and it is 

 desirable that sportsmen preserve complete specimens from 

 the Lado or upper Bahr-el-Ghazal districts for identifica- 

 tion. 



Masai Giraffe 



Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi 



Native Names: Swahili, twiga; Kikamba, ndwi ; Kikuyu, ndoiga ; Masai, 

 oloadokiragata. 



Girafa tippelskirchi Matschie, 1898, Sitz.-Ber. Ges.Nat. Freunde, Berl., p. 77. 



Range. — British East Africa from the south bank of 

 the Tana River, the southern slopes of Mount Kenia, Lake 

 Nakuru, the Loita Plains, and Amala River drainage 



