THE GIRAFFE AND OK API 95 



2. The Northern Giraffe (Giraffa camelofardalis 

 typica]. 



3. The Somali Giraffe (Giraffa reticulata]^ 

 Of these the two first forms are of the well-known 

 blotched species, so long familiar to visitors at the 

 Zoological Gardens. They are to be regarded as 

 sub-species of the same race, and have strong 

 points of resemblance. In the northern giraffe 

 it is found that in addition to the pair of false horns 

 rising in front of the ears, a third boss or horn is 

 usually developed on the centre of the forehead, 

 while occasionally other two horns are to be found 

 rising behind the main pair, exactly between the 

 ears. A head sent home by Sir Harry Johnston 

 from Uganda, now in the Natural History Museum, 

 shows very clearly the five distinct horns. 2 The 

 Somali giraffe, although it may have been known 

 ages ago in the Roman arena and at Roman 

 triumphs, where giraffes were occasionally exhibited, 

 was utterly unknown to modern hunters and modern 

 scientists until the year 1893, when a specimen was 

 shot by Major Wood and Captain Ffinch in the 

 Aulihahn country, Somaliland. Other specimens of 

 this giraffe have been since shot by Lord Delamere, 



1 Quite recently Mr. R. Lydekker, the well-known naturalist, has separated 

 giraffes into two forms, the Netted or Somali giraffe, and the Blotched giraffe. 

 Of the latter he gives ten sub-species or varieties, viz. the Nubian, Kordofan, 

 South Lado, Baringo, Kilimanjaro, Congo, Angola, North Transvaal, Cape, and 

 Nigerian. The last word on this difficult question has, however, by no means 

 yet been said, nor can it be until considerably more material has been gathered. 



2 In one specimen recently brought home by Major Powell-Cotton, and 

 named by Mr. Lydekker the South Lado giraffe, a sixth boss or false horn 

 appears over the right eye, projecting horizontally. 



