GIRAFFES 



ii i 



Total height. 



ft. ins. 

 -I? 3 



-16 o 

 9-13 10 



At shoulder, 

 ft. ins. 

 IO II 



Northern Race. 



Locality. 



British East Africa 

 Central East Africa . 

 British East Africa 



Owner. 



P. II. G. Powell-Cotton. 

 A. H. Neumann. 



British Museum (P. H. G. 

 Powell-Cotton). 



Southern Race. 



Total height, 

 ft. ins. 



-18 7 



18 4 



18 o 



-17 6 



<5 17 o 



d 16 6 



-915 6 



to 

 16 o 



At shoulder, 

 ft. ins. 



Locality. 



South- East Africa . 



Angola . 



12 o South Africa . 



Average height South-East Africa . 



W. Matabililand 



N. Kalahari . 

 Average height South- East Africa . 



Owner. 



F. Vaughan Kirby. 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The late Sir W. Cornwallis 



Harris. 

 F. Vaughan Kirby. 



F. C. Selous. 



Do. 

 F. Vaughan Kirby. 



THE SOMALI GIRAFFE (Giraffa reticulata). 



The Somali giraffe (for which the name netted giraffe would be 

 appropriate, were it not that it has a double signification) may be 

 described as a dull, red-coloured animal with a coarse network of 

 narrow white lines dividing the ground-colour into a number of large, 

 irregularly quadrangular and sharply defined patches. The head and 

 upper part of the neck are, however, spotted, while the ears and the 

 legs from the knees and hocks downwards are white. In old bulls the 

 five horns are well developed, although the hinder pair are somewhat 

 less conspicuous than in the northern race of the blotched species. 



Apparently this type of coloration is specially adapted for render- 

 ing the animal inconspicuous when in covert. 



