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be included in the present account. The animals range from south- 

 ern Angola to about the latitude of Windhoek in South-West Africa. 

 This range corresponds roughly to the northern half or two-thirds 

 of the Damara Arid District of Bowen (1933, pp. 256, 259). 



Angola. Records from extreme southeastern Angola (between the 

 Kwito and the Kwando Rivers) and from the adjoining central 

 Caprivi, quoted in the account of G. c. injumata, may refer actually 

 to the present subspecies. 



"Here [in Angola], especially in the country behind Benguela, 

 it is fairly common" (Bryden, 1899, p. 501). 



"Giraffe ... is probably found from the South-West Angolan 

 coast to the Kwando river, though the distribution is patchy. . . . 



"Giraffe spoor was plentiful between the Kubango, Loengi and 

 Kwando, and I saw three troops without hunting for these animals." 

 (Statham, 1924, pp. 265-266.) 



This animal is very rare in Angola. It is reported in the Kafima 

 region; and in the country between the Kuvelai and the Kului 

 Rivers, to the northwest of Mupa, there is still a small herd, which 

 will be promptly decimated if not strictly protected. (Monard, 

 1935, pp. 296-297.) 



South-West Africa. Shortridge (1934, vol. 2, pp. 620-622, map 

 facing p. 612) furnishes the following information: 



In this country the Giraffe ranges from the Kaokoveld (in the 

 northwest) to the Grootfontein District (in the northeast), and 

 also in the Caprivi. The plains of Ovamboland and about the 

 Etosha Pan may represent a region where extermination has taken 

 place comparatively recently. In the Kaokoveld the number is 

 estimated at about 200 head; the coastal part of this region is not 

 occupied by Giraffes. Small parties trek through western Ovam- 

 boland fairly regularly, but, perhaps owing to Ovambo hunters, 

 they seldom seem to remain long. In the Grootfontein District, 

 though their numbers may be no greater than in the Kaokoveld, 

 they have a wider, far more scattered distribution. Toward the 

 Bechuanaland border they are reported to be seen occasionally on 

 the sand plains far east of the Waterberg, and to range sparsely 

 as far south as latitude 22 S. Giraffes are extinct as far south 

 as the Gobabis District, though a solitary bull is said to have 

 been killed in this latitude as recently as 1920. The animals are 

 still remembered by certain native tribes inhabiting the southern 

 parts of South-West Africa; but these probably belonged to the 

 subspecies capensis. 



