14S MAMMALS. 



Group 11. Teihacerus. — One species, inhabiting Nepal, Bengal, &c. 



CA:«Ei,npAKi)s. (Camel()I>ardai,i».¥..) (Map 39.) The only existing representative of tliis family 

 is the well-kno^vn Giraffe, which ranges from Nubia and Abj-ssinia on the east, and Senegal on the 

 west, southwards tlirough Central Africa, avoiding the highlands on the east, until it meets the 

 (tutposts of the white colonists at the Cape of Good Hope. I can find no account of its ever 

 having extended so far south as the Cape itself, and the mountainous nature of much of the old 

 settled country woidd probably act as a barrier against its progress if the climate did not. 

 Sparrnum, about 1772, speaks of it as inhabiting the interior in the north-west.* 



M. Duvernoy has discovered fossil remains of what he considers a well-marked extinct species 

 at Issoudun, in the department of Indre in France, and a tooth was also found in Switzerland 

 by M. Agassiz. Remains of two extinct species of a remarkable colossal genus named Sivatheeium, 

 and nearly allied to the Camelopard, have been found by Falconer and Cautley in the Sevalik 

 formations in the Ilimmalayahs. I do not know whether M. Duverno}''s and Agassiz' determinations 

 of the European remains have received the endorsement of other palasontologists, but it is a case 

 where careful inquiry seems more than usually required. The genus is African and allied to the 

 Antelopes, and is not one whose existence in Eurojje should be readily admitted, while we should 

 feel as little disposed to question its having lived on the southern bank of the Sevalik Sea. 



Nothing at all similar to the Giraffe has been found, either living or fossil, on the American 

 Continent. 



* SrAURiiAN, Andrew, " Travels iu Africa," 1787. 



