ORDER ARTIODACTYLA : EVEN-TOED UNGULATES 495 



In the Northern Game Reserve of Kenya there are fair numbers, 

 but the animals have suffered considerably during recent troubles, 

 many being killed by Abyssinians and Turkana (Percival, 1923, 

 p. 70). 



Masai Giraffe; Kilimanjaro Giraffe 



GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS TIPPELSKIRCHI Matschie 



Giraffa tippelskirchi Matschie, Sitz.-ber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin 1898, 



p. 78, 1898. (Steppe not far from Lake Eyasi, Tanganyika Territory 



(about lat. 3 30' S., long. 35 E.) .) 

 SYNONYM: Giraffa schillingsi Matschie (1898). 

 FIGS.: Lydekker, 1904a, pp. 214-218, figs. 28-32; Lydekker, 19056, pi. 11; 



Rothschild and Neuville, 1911, pi. 2, fig. 1, pp. 106-107, 131-133, figs. 



31-35 (as "rothschildi") ; Roosevelt and Heller, 1914, vol. 1, pi. facing p. 



302, upper fig., pi. facing p. 306, 3 upper figs.; Maxwell, 1924, pis. facing 



pp. 117, 121, 123, 124, 126; Zool. Garten, n. s., vol. 1, nos. 10-12, p. 408, 



fig., 1929. 



Thanks to the good protection it receives over most of its range, 

 the Masai Giraffe still exists in satisfactory numbers. 



Forehead black; temples strongly spotted; legs dark gray, with 

 dark spots down nearly to the hoofs ; dark brown spots on the body 

 and neck strongly dissected (Matschie, 1898, p. 78). "This race is 

 indeed the most beautiful of all the Giraffes, and is especially 

 characterised by the fullness of its spotting" (Lydekker, 1905, 

 p. 121). Frontal horn smaller than in G. c. rothschildi; coloration 

 of the legs subject to much individual variation; height of male 

 up to 17 feet 2 inches (Roosevelt and Heller, 1914, vol. 1, pp. 317, 

 320). 



The range comprises "British East Africa from the south bank 

 of the Tana River, the southern slopes of Mount Kenia, Lake 

 Nakuru, the Loita Plains, and Amala River drainage southward 

 to central German East Africa at least; limits of range unknown" 

 (Roosevelt and Heller, 1914, vol. 1, pp. 316-317). 



Kenya. Of this Giraffe in Kenya Colony, Roosevelt and Heller 

 (1914, vol. 1, pp. 318, 320) have written: 



They are found in small parties, or herds of twenty or thirty individuals, 

 or singly. They are usually the most wary of game; and yet at times show 

 foolish tameness. . . . 



Giraffes are such strange, picturesque creatures, and so harmless that they 

 ought to be killed only when absolutely needed for scientific purposes. . . . 



In the field herds have been seen near the railroad stations of Voi, Simba, 

 Makindu, Kui, and Ulu, in the Rift Valley, near Mount Suswa, and on the 

 Loita Plains. They occur practically everywhere throughout the desert nyika 

 of the coast and inland through the bush country to the edge of the grassy 

 plains up to an altitude of 7,000 feet. 



