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it differs by the low frontal horn forming a distinct compressed cone 

 instead of an irregular mass, by the forehead and bases of the horns 

 being brown in place of grey, and the uniformly tawny colour of the 

 lower part of the legs ; the latter having these either whitish (? old 

 bulls) or tawny and profusely spotted (females and ? young bulls). 

 The bull of the Rhodesian giraffe is characterised by the low and 

 conical frontal horn, the grey ground-colour and sparse spotting of the 

 sides of the face, the chestnut-brown forehead, deepening into black 

 on the tips of the horns, the absence of a distinctly stellate pattern on 

 the neck and body spots, which are light brown on a yellowish tawny 

 ground, and the uniformly tawny lower portion of the legs. 



A male giraffe from Barotsiland, to the north of the Zambesi, and 

 a female from the same district to the south of that river, have been 

 described by Prof. P. Noack {Zool. Anzeiger, vol. xxxiii. p. 354, 1908) 

 as a new species under the name of G. infuinata. It is stated to be 

 allied to capciisis, from which one of its points of difference is the 

 rosette-like arrangement of the spots on the hind-legs, which are 

 described as resembling those of a leopard. In the absence of photo- 

 graphs or figures it is difficult to appreciate the other characters given 

 by Prof Noack ; but the animal is certainly not more than a local 

 race, and should therefore, if distinct, be known as G. c. mfumata. 



In 1 910 Mr. Knottnerus-Meyer {Zool. Anzeiger, vol. xxxv. p. 800) 

 gave the name giraffa hagenbecki to an immature female giraffe about 

 six years of age from Gallaland, then living in Mr. Carl Hagenbeck's 

 menagerie at Stellingen. It was at first regarded as referable to 

 G. reticulata^ but its describer points out that the blotches, which are 

 largest on the body and neck, are dark lustreless brown, separated by 

 a network of white, fairly regular in these regions. On the outside of 

 the thighs, limbs, and head the markings are broken up, and are very 

 small on the forehead and occiput. The hind-limbs and the posterior 

 parts of the fore-limbs are spotted, but the anterior parts of the latter 

 from the knee downwards are white, so that the cannon-bones appear 

 to be marked out. The pubic region and the inside of the thighs are 

 also white. 



Messrs. Rothschild and Neuville point out, in the memoir cited 

 that this giraffe, which is certainly not a species, may be a local form 

 of G. reticulata^ but that, owing to the immaturity of the type specimen, 

 its true affinity cannot at present be determined. 



