362 GIRAFFE GROUP 



it occurs to the southward in Portuguese East Africa. This race is a 

 lighter-coloured three-horned giraffe than G. c. rothsdiildi ; the sexes 

 being nearly alike in the form and colour of the spots, the lower part 

 of the legs (at least generally) more or less spotted and either whitish 

 or olive-coloured. The spots in both sexes are irregular and jagged in 

 contour, often displaying a distinctly star-like shape. 



The type specimen of tippelskircJii is a young female skin brought 

 to Berlin by Mr. Tippelskirch from Lake Eyassi, and characterised 

 by the dark forehead, olive-coloured and spotted legs, and the very 

 narrow and serrated white lines dividing the spots, the latter feature 

 being evidently due to immaturity. A somewhat older skin, brought 

 by Mr. Ramsay from German East Africa, was regarded by Dr. 

 Matschie as closely allied, but, owing to the lower part of the legs 

 being white, was not definitely assigned to this race. Another so-called 

 race {G. c. scJiillingsi) has been named by Dr. Matschie on the evidence 

 of an adult female skin obtained by Mr. Schillings from the Kiliman- 

 jaro district. It is characterised by the white, unspotted legs, the 

 light forehead, sparsely spotted cheeks, and the jagged, irregular, and 

 somewhat star-like form of the chestnut spots, which are widely 

 separated on the neck. A skin from German East Africa mounted 

 in the museum at Karlsruhe has been identified by Dr. Matschie with 

 his scJiillingsi, and agrees with the type in all essential characters, 

 except that the legs are distinctly spotted for some distance below the 

 knees and hocks. On the other hand, a mounted skin in the Stuttgart 

 Museum brought by Mr. Schillings from Masailand is referred by 

 Dr. Matschie to tippelskircJii. With the exception that the legs are 

 more fully spotted below the knees and hocks, and the sides of the 

 face are likewise more spotted, while the forehead may be darker, the 

 specimen has all the characters o{' scJiillingsi, and in my opinion 

 cannot be separated from that form. 



Decisive evidence of the unity of the two forms is, however, 

 afforded by the skin of the fore-legs and withers of a male from 

 Kilimanjaro presented to the British Museum by Mr. Rowland Ward. 

 In this skin, which has jagged and somewhat star-like chestnut spots 

 of the character of those of the so-called scJiillingsi, the lower part of 

 the fore-legs is fawn-coloured, and spotted almost or quite down to the 

 hoofs, after the fashion of the type of tippelsJzircJii. In other words, 

 we have a tippelsJiircJii from the typical scJiillingsi locality, which seems 

 sufficient to show that the two are identical. 



The British Museum possesses a mounted female of the Kiliman- 

 jaro race from British East Africa, presented by Mr. T. F. Victor 



