GIRAFFE 



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G. c. tippelskircJii, although the dark markings show no trace of the 

 ragged and star-Hke form characteristic of that race. 



In all the remaining races of this species the frontal horn is 

 rudimentary ; and the limbs are more or less fully spotted to the 

 hoofs. The first of these races is the Angola giraffe {G. c. 

 angolensis), which is typified by a mounted male in Mr. Rothschild's 

 Museum at Tring (fig. 72), from the Cunene river, i 50 miles south-west 



Fig. 72. — The Angola Girafl'e. 



of Humbe. The markings are more of the network type than in 

 G. c. capensis. The spots on the face are confined to an area lying 

 below a longitudinal line running beneath the eye to the angle of the 

 mouth ; and there is a small and indistinct triangular area below the 

 ear in which the ground-colour is white. The body-spots are large, 

 with ill-defined margins, and brown in colour ; but there is a sudden 

 break into smaller spots about the middle of the thigh. The ground- 

 colour is white or whitish ; and the legs are fully spotted to the hoofs, 



