484 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



common in certain areas ; in other places they are quite rare. Hunt- 

 ing is forbidden in different regions. 



For additional information on the range and status of wild Rein- 

 deer in Siberia, see Schrenck (1859, pp. 167-170), Miller, in Car- 

 ruthers (1913, p. 234), Millais (1915, pp. 218-223), Sowerby (1923, 

 pp. 112-113) , Jacobi (1931, pp. 67-69, 131-133, 149, 188-190) , Scalon 

 (1931, p. 224), and Salesski (1934, pp. 372-373). 



Many of the Siberian natives keep domesticated Reindeer. On 

 this subject consult Carruthers (1913, pp. 127-128), Millais (1915, 

 p. 217), and Laufer (1917). The present Reindeer industry of 

 Alaska and northwestern Canada had its origin in domesticated 

 stock imported from eastern Siberia (c/. Hadwen and Palmer, 1922; 

 also Proc. North American Wildlife Conference 1936, pp. 424-427, 

 1936) . 



Family GIRAFFIDAE: Giraffes and Okapi 



This family consists of two Recent species: Giraffa camelopar- 

 dalis, divisible into 12 subspecies, and Okapia johnstoni. The entire 

 family is now restricted to Africa south of the Sahara. 



All Giraffes are accorded protection under Schedule B of the 

 London Convention of 1933. Therefore all subspecies are included 

 in the following accounts, although some of them are still fairly 

 common. The Okapi is placed in Schedule A by the London Con- 

 vention. 



"The giraffe is surely as impressive and wonderful a form of life 

 as any that has ever been evolved on this planet. ... To me, at 

 any rate, whenever I have watched them feeding on the tall feath- 

 ery-leaved acacias, to which they are very partial, or stalking slowly 

 and majestically through the park-like country they very com- 

 monly frequent, giraffes have always appeared to be amongst the 

 most graceful and beautiful of all wild creatures." (Selous, 1914, 

 p. 40.) 



An inoffensive animal, ornament of the mimosa savannas, the 

 Giraffe is perhaps the most worthy of protection of all the animals 

 of Africa (Lavauden, 1933, p. 27) . 



Sennar Giraffe; Nubian Giraffe. Girafe (Fr.). Giraffe (Ger.) 



GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS CAMELOPARDALIS (Linnaeus) 



[Cervus] Camelopardalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 66, 1758. 



("Aethiopia and Sennar"; type locality restricted by Harper (1940, p. 



322) to "Sennar," Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.) 

 FIGS.: Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mammif., pt. 2, pi. 42, 1855; Lydekker, 1904, pis. 



9, 10, and 1905, pp. 340-341, figs. 85-86; Lydekker and Elaine, 1914, 



vol. 3, p. 243, fig. 41; Selous, 1914, pi. 6, right-hand fig.; Zammarano, 



1930, p. 89, fig. 



