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Buxton. The spots on the body are of the characteristic jagged type, 

 with the intervening network pattern very narrow. On the neck the 

 spots are of considerable size, with wide intervals between ; but they 

 decrease in size and become more approximated on the body, and on 

 the limbs they are very numerous. They cover nearly the whole of 

 the inner surface of the thighs and both sides of the limbs as far down 

 as the fetlocks. On the lower part of the legs the ground-colour is 

 olive-fawn, but on the upper portion of the fore-legs and shoulders it 

 passes into whity brown ; while on the last few inches of the neck and 

 the whole of the sides of the face the ground-colour is white. The 

 spots on the sides of the head are blackish brown, but they are else- 

 where some shade of brown-fawn, darkest on the back and gradually 



Fig. 71. — Bull Kilimanjaro Giratic shut by .Mr. I'rank Bai-lcn-rowcU in IJritish l£asl Africa. 



paling on the legs. They nowhere show dark centres. There is no 

 trace of a third horn, but this is probably merely a characteristic of 

 the female. 



Mr. Buxton's specimen emphasises the marked distinctness of the 

 Kilimanjaro giraffe from all the other races of the species. This race is 

 indeed the most beautiful of all the giraffes, and especially characterised 

 by the fulness of its spotting. 



That a third horn is developed in this race seems to be demon- 

 strated by sketches of a head and skull, together with certain notes, 

 made some years ago by Mr. Vaughan Kirby in Portuguese East 

 Africa. These sketches show the head and neck of a male giraffe, 

 having the type of coloration characteristic of the present race, and 

 carrying a well-marked third horn on the forehead. At the same time 



