184 African Zoology. 



Inhabits Europe, Western Asia, Barbary, Corsica. 



Elapbos, Arist. iEliaii. Cervus, Pliny. Cerf, Buff. G. and 

 F. Cuvier. C. Elaplius, Auctor. Stag, Pent , Shaw. Ilirsch 

 of the Germans. Olen, and Jelen, Sclavon. Buga (f Tartar. 



Tribe GIRAFFID.^.. 



Frontal processes prolonged in the shape of horns, covered 

 with hairy sUin, which is continued from the scalp, and ter- 

 minated by long hard bristles, in both sexes. 



Genus Camelopardalis. Linnceus. 



Incisors I, canines "I, molars It, — 32. Head long prolonged 

 with titberculum on the chnffron ; osseous peduncles covered with 

 skin, and hairy, terviinated by a tuft of brifttles ; no mvzzle ;^ 

 upper-lip entire; no lachrymary sinus; ears lung; tongue 

 rough; eyes large, soft, pupil elongated ; nick very long ; withers 

 much elevated; back obli'/zte ; legs slender; no succentorial 

 hoofs: callosity on the breast ; tail to the hough; female four 

 teats. 



Camelopardls Girajfa. (The Giraffe.) In stature the tall- 

 est of maminiferous animals; coat of a dirty white, marked^ 

 with dark brown, or ferruginous spots or blotches, somewhat 

 tending- to symmetrical forms ; large and angular in their 

 shapes ; short mane on lieck and withers, in alternate parts of 

 black and white ; tail terminated by a tuft of dark and long 

 hair. 



Inhabits Central Africa, — from Caffraria, and the borders of 

 the Gariep, across the deserts to Abyssinia. 



Camelopardalis, Pliny, Oppian. Heliodorus, Gesncr. Ana- 

 bula. Seraph. Alb the Great; Gyraffa, quam Zurnapa, Grseci 

 ct Latini Camclopardalus nominant, Bellon. Prosp. Albin. 

 Camclopardalus, Lin. Girafra, Camclus Indicus, Johnst. 

 Giraifa Camelopardalis, Briss. Camelopardalis Giraffa, Auctor. 

 Giraife, Buff. Giraffa, Shaw. Zuraphate. Arabic. Seraphah, 

 Persian. Jirataka Lin Amharic. Zoraer, Hebrew. Dcba, 

 Chaldaic, jEthiopic. Nabis, Pliny. Naip of the Hottentots. 

 ImpatoOj Bushmen. 



Tribe CAPRID,^. 



Horns persistent, vaginating upon an osseous nucleus, totally 

 or nearly solid ; the horny sheath received its increase by annual 

 ringlets at the base, which form in most species annuli, wrinkles, 

 or knots ; many striated longitudinally ; the horns ofteu 



