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from the knees downwards, as well as by the occasional presence of 

 spotting on the front of the face. In this particular race the sexes are 

 nearly or quite alike in respect to the form and colour of the markings. 

 Spots large, apparently chestnut-coloured at all ages, more or less 

 distinctly quadrangular in form, and divided by a coarse network of 

 comparatively narrow light lines, which are huffish white in immature 

 bulls, and nearly white in cows of same age. Front of face in bulls 

 somewhat spotted, and sides fully spotted. No prominent occipital 

 (posterior) horns. 



In an immature male figured in the paper cited a notable feature is 

 a row of five large spots, of which the first is partially divided, extending 

 from just below the point of the shoulder in a curved line to the 

 middle of the back. On the outer side of the fore-limb the spots 

 extend well down to the knee, and in the hind-limb a considerable 

 distance down the cannon-bone. The under-parts are comparatively 

 free from spots, as is the inner surface of the upper segments of both 

 limbs. In a female the spots were smaller and more numerous, this 

 being especially noticeable on the hind-quarters and the upper part of 

 the fore-legs. Correlated with this is the greater width of the light 

 interspaces, which are nearly white on the greater part of the body. 

 Faint spotting occurs on the belly and the fore part of the inner 

 surface of the front legs. 



Nearly allied to the last — from which it is easily distinguishable by 

 the circumstance that in the fore-limb from just above the line of the 

 abdomen, and on the hind-limb halfway up the thigh, the spots 

 suddenly break up into a series of very small spots of irregular shape, 

 similar spots occurring on the under-parts and inner side of limbs — is 

 the Kordofan race {G. c. antiquoruni). The horns are as in the Nubian 

 giraffe. Indeed, so close is the Kordofan to the Nubian giraffe, that 

 had not the former been named years ago by Colonel Hamilton Smith, 

 it is doubtful if I should have admitted its claim to distinction. 



Another nearly related race is the Nigerian giraffe iG. c. peralta), 

 originally named by Mr. O. Thomas in the Zoological Society's 

 Proceedings for 1898, p. 40, on the evidence of a skull and limb-bones 

 from the neighbourhood of Locoja, at the junction of the Benue with 

 the Niger, but more fully described by myself in the same serial for 

 1905 (vol. i. p. 119) from the skin of a bull obtained in Nigeria during 

 the Alexander-Gosling expedition. 



The latter specimen, which indicates a fully adult although not very 

 old animal, shows that the Nigerian giraffe belongs to the northern 

 group in which the bulls have a large median horn, and the legs in 



