THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 

 No. 51. MARCH 1872. 



XX. — On the Horns J Viscera^ and Muscles of the Giraffe ; 

 with a Becord of the post mortem Examination of two Speci- 

 mens hilled hy a fire. By Dr. James Mukie, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c. 



[Plates VII. & VIII.] 



Those desiring information respecting the vast amount of 

 literature devoted to the genus Camelopardalis I would refer 

 to the " Eecherches Historiques, Zoologiques, Anatomiques 

 et Paleontologiques sur la Girafe"*, by Profs. N. Joly and 

 A. Lavocat of Toulouse. They not only give a chrono- 

 logical list from the time of Moses downwards, but in addition 

 three plates, facsimiles from the ancient Egyptian monuments 

 and old engravings ; then follows a very good anatomical 

 memoir. 



The skeleton of this abnormal ruminant has been ably de- 

 scribed and figured by many leading zoologists, — Pander and 

 D'Alton, Riippell, Cuvier, St. Hilaire, Owen, De Blainville, 

 Gervais, &c. &c. The fullest accounts of the soft parts of its 

 anatomy are in the original monograph of Prof. Owen f and 

 the ^'Recherches" above spoken of; but upon certain parts of 

 its internal structure Drs. Cobbold J and Crisp § and others 

 have supplied interesting observations. 



Withal it may be asseverated that a quarter of a century 

 ago, when comparative anatomy held less sway than at pre- 

 sent, and in spite of the then scarcity of this great creature, 

 its entire organization was much better worked out than that of 

 many very common animals. Till recently a few points have 

 been disputed, or at least opposing observations not harmo- 



* Mem. de la Soc. des Sci. Nat. de Strasbourg, 1840, tome iii. 



t Trans. Zool. Soc. vols. ii. & iii. 



X Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. xiii. (1854) &c. § Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Fo/. ix. 13 



