498 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



myself came across a small party, but recent spoor and droppings were 

 plentiful, and freshly browsed trees and bushes observed. It was noticeable 

 that the giraffe habitat is confined to localities where certain species of 

 acacias on which this creature appears primarily to feed are plentiful. 

 These same conditions are found in the vicinity of the Kapamba River on 

 the Mpika-Serenje side of the Luangwa, and it is reported that when the 

 river is low, giraffes occasionally stray across to the right bank, but so far 

 have always returned whence they came .... 



It is well-known that during the past 30 years the giraffe has enjoyed 

 almost complete immunity from molestation with a resultant very gratifying 

 increase, its numbers being more than quadrupled, but I have reason to believe 

 that giraffe meat ... is sometimes included in the bill of fare of the local 

 natives. 



Barotse Giraffe. Sambesi-Giraffe (Ger.) 



GlRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS INFUMATA Noack 



Giraffa injumata Noack, Zool. Anz., vol. 33, no. 11, p. 356, 1908. (Barotse 

 region north and south of the "middle" [=upper] Zambesi.) 



Comparatively little information is available concerning the 

 Barotse Giraffe, but its numbers appear to be rather few. 



Frontal horn rather large; no occipital horns evident; ears longer 

 and broader than in other Giraffes. General color pattern re- 

 sembling that of G. c. capensis; spots large, more or less regularly 

 3-, 4-, or 5-cornered, and arranged especially on the neck in pretty 

 regular rows; on the hind legs (especially in the male) spots in 

 rosettes, broken up with many irregular indentations, and extend- 

 ing halfway from the knees and hocks to the fetlocks ; ground color 

 smoky brown; a small black band in front of the forehead; ocular 

 area whitish, with a fuscous border, the latter extending as a stripe 

 to the nose; cheeks with small spots; body and neck spots madder- 

 colored, darker in the middle; a slight mane foxy red, extending to 

 the withers; lower parts of limbs brownish ochraceous; whitish 

 under parts with small reddish spots. Height up to 19 feet. (Noack, 

 1908, pp. 354-355.) 



Pitman (1934, pp. 50-51, map F) indicates the range of this 

 Giraffe as being comprised between the Zambesi and Kwando 

 Rivers, in the Sesheke and Nalolo districts in the extreme southwest 

 of Northern Rhodesia. There is no present evidence of its occur- 

 rence on the north or left bank of the Zambesi, whence Noack's 

 male cotype (a living captive) was alleged to have come. It occupies 

 a very small portion of the Rhodesian Highland District of Chapin 

 (1932, p. 90) or the Rhodesian Savanna District of Bowen (1933, 

 pp. 256, 259). 



Cambell (in Pitman, 1934, pp. 46-54) contributes the following 

 information concerning the Barotse animal : 



"Giraffe . . are restricted to the west of the Zambezi. 



