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larger ones above; similar spots also occur on the under parts and 

 the inner surfaces of the limbs. Horns as in the Sennar Giraffe. 

 (Lydekker, 1904, p. 206.) Height about 16 feet (Cretzschmar, 1826, 

 p. 23). This subspecies is said by Schwarz (1920, p. 898) to differ 

 from G. c. peralta only in its brighter, more reddish coloration. 



The range may be tentatively considered to include Kordofan 

 and Darfur in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The areas where this 

 subspecies presumably intergrades with G. c. peralta on the west 

 and with G. c. congoensis on the south have not been determined. 



According to Cretzschmar (1826, p. 25), Ruppell obtained five 

 specimens on his journeys in Nubia and Kordofan. The species lives 

 in small companies in all deserts south of Simrie [about lat. 17 N., 

 long. 30 45' E.], and is common in the deserts of Darfur. 



Ruppell (1829, pp. 69, 70, 123) speaks of the Arabs of the Dongola 

 region hunting Giraffes from horseback, their hides being especially 

 prized for leather work. He also mentions tracks seen at the Wadi 

 Serafe, near latitude 16 N., along the caravan route from Debba 

 to El Obeid. He remarks later (1835, p. 24) that the animal occurs 

 pretty commonly in small families of four to six individuals in the 

 scrubby steppes and valley lowlands south of latitude 17. 



"The Giraffe is found in great numbers on the road from El 

 Debbeh (on the Nile) to Kordofan, between Sabrian and Jebel el 

 Arazi, and behind Kordofan, on the Bahr el Abiad, in the territory 

 of the Baggara" (Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, p. 187, 1835, as 

 quoted in Anderson and de Winton, 1902, p. 353) . 



Brocklehurst (1931, pp. 64-65) gives the following account: 



Giraffes are common throughout the Sudan on both banks of the Nile, 

 and during the rainy season extend as far north as the Wadi Howar in north- 

 western Darfur, approximately lat. 16 N. . . . 



Giraffes generally run in herds of ten or fifteen .... Quite close to the 

 mouth of the Bahr-el-Ghazal there is a herd of several hundred Giraffes, 

 which never seem to move away from this one particular place. 



In parts of southern Kordofan they are still hunted by the Arabs on horse- 

 back with the sword .... 



It is very rarely that any visitors to the Sudan ever want to kill one of 

 these beautiful, harmless creatures; but I remember the case of one lady 

 whose sole ambition was to kill a Giraffe in order to have a coat made from 

 its hide ! 



Nigerian Giraffe 



GlRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS PERALTA ThbmaS 



Gtirafia] clamelopardalis'] peralta Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1898, 



p. 40, 1898. ('To the south-east of the junction of the Benue and 



Niger .... Approximately 8 E., and 7 N.") 

 FIGS.: Lydekker, 19056, pi. 12, figs. 1-2; Mitchell, 1905, pp. 245, 247, figs. 



50, 51; Duke of Mecklenburg, From the Congo to the Nile, vol. 1, fig. 



56, 1913; Schwarz, 1920, pi. 37; Antonius, 19296, pp. 376-378, figs. 4-6; 



Lavauden, 1934, pi. 11, fig. 35; Malbrant, 1936, pi. 15. 



