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and show no tendency to split up into smaller spots by the develop- 

 ment of lighter lines radiating from the centre. The spots are also of 

 more regular and more squared form, those on the lower part of the 

 neck being so arranged that the fawn-coloured interspaces form 

 continuous transverse bands. In G. c. rotJischildi, on the other hand, 

 the spots on the neck of the male are arranged somewhat alternately, 

 so that no such transverse light bands can be traced. 



The spotting of the face is coniined to an area lying considerably 

 below a longitudinal line drawn through the eye. The spots between 

 the eye and the ear are smaller, and do not extend upwards on to the 

 horns ; while the hind aspect of the horns and the portion of the 

 crown of the head below them are likewise devoid of spots, although 

 fully spotted in the Baringo race. The white area on the side of the 

 head is also much smaller and much less conspicuous than in the type 

 male of the latter. Moreover, the spots on the under surface of the 

 head are much less numerous, and (like the sides of the face) brown 

 instead of black. There are also much smaller spots on the nape of 

 the neck. So far as can be determined, the spots on the shoulder are 

 smaller than in the typical male of the Baringo race, none approach- 

 ing in size the few large ones characteristic of that animal. On 

 both sides of the upper part of the fore-leg the spots are markedly 

 smaller and more numerous than in the latter ; while on the front 

 and inner sides they are pale fawn, instead of being, as on the outer 

 side, black. 



The main horns are decidedly smaller than in the males of the 

 Baringo giraffe, and the development of the posterior horns is also 

 somewhat less. In the skull of the type specimen, the right main 

 horn is larger than the left horn. A more remarkable feature is the 

 presence of a horn on the right side of the head, which is, however, 

 wanting in a second specimen from the same locality. 



As already mentioned, the general characteristics of this giraffe 

 affiliate it closely to G. c. rothscJiildi, but the resemblance of the second 

 head and neck (in the collection of Major Powell-Cotton) to the type 

 seems to render its right to distinction fairly good. 



With the Kilimanjaro giraffe {G. c. tippelskirchi) we come to 

 a race in which the lower part of the legs — especially the hind pair 

 — is more' or less spotted and dark-coloured, at any rate in im- 

 mature animals. This race is typically from Lake Eyassi, to the 

 south-west of the Victoria Nyanza, but extends due westward to the 

 neighbourhood of Mount Kilimanjaro, in about lat. 3" south of the 

 equator, and also the Masai country, a little farther north. Probably 



