490 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



opened fire on a band of 11 Giraffes, killing every one and leaving 

 their bodies to the hyenas and vultures (Lavauden, 1933, pp. 27-28) . 



In many parts of French Africa, where the Tuaregs and the 

 southern Arabs hunt it from horseback, the Giraffe has almost 

 disappeared. Its speedy gait permits it to escape the large carni- 

 vores, which rarely capture it. (Lavauden, 1934, p. 412.) 



The Giraffe is found in the Ferlo district of Senegal; in the region 

 about Nioro and Bassikouno between the Senegal and the Niger; 

 and northward from the Niger as far as the southern part of Time- 

 trine (about lat. 19 N., long. 1 W.). It is also met with near the 

 Niger between Bamba and Bourem. Between the Niger and Chad 

 it occurs in the region north of Tahoua (about lat. 15 N., long. 

 5 E.), in Damergou, Tegama (north of Damergou), and Manga. It 

 is found, accidentally, in the region of Labbezzenga (on the Niger 

 at about 40' E.), in the sands of Menaka (northeast of the last 

 point), and south of Kidal (about lat. 18 30' N., long. 1 20' E.). 

 (General Government of French West Africa, in litt., November, 

 1936.) 



Senegal and Gambia. The Giraffe lives in small bands in the 

 Ferlo desert country of Senegal, and sometimes ventures as far as 

 the Lac de Guier, a tributary of the Senegal River. The natives 

 love to hunt it for the sake of its hide, of which they make amulets 

 and sandals that are reputedly indestructible; they are convinced 

 that, shod in these sandals, they have nothing to fear from the Lion. 

 (Cligny, 1900, p. 291.) 



Near the middle course of the Gambia River Giraffes "appear 

 to be extremely rare" (Budgett, 1900, p. 933) . 



"It seems agreed" that Giraffes "do not now exist in the Gambia" 

 (Haywood, 1933, p. 36). 



Along the Gambia River "a young Giraffe was captured a few 

 miles from Kontaour (150 miles up) some years ago .... We are 

 still wondering how this animal got into the Gambia." (E. Johnson, 

 1937, p. 64.) 



Congo Giraffe. Girafe du Congo (Fr.) 



GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS coNGOENSis Lydekker 



Girafta camelopardalis congoensis Lydekker, in Hutchinson's Animal Life, 

 vol. 2, p. 83, 1903. ("Katanga" = Dimgu, in the northeast of the Uelle 

 district, Belgian Congo (fide Schouteden, 1912, p. 135).) 



FIGS.: Lydekker, 1904, p. 220, fig. 33; Leplae, 1925, p. 102, fig. 



This Giraffe is seriously reduced in numbers in its range in the 

 northeastern corner of the Belgian Congo. Presumably the same 

 subspecies extends over the Sudan frontier into the Bahr el Ghazal 

 and the western part of Mongalla Province, where the animals are 



