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greyer, being a greyish brown like that of a waterbuck. The face is 

 also darker, the whole of the lower portion being chocolate-brown like 

 that of the forehead, and the tan restricted to the area round the eye, 

 behind which is a small white patch. There is a tendency to rufous 

 in the hair round the muzzle and between the horns. In consequence 

 of the darker colour of the face, the frontal chevron is more conspicuous 

 than in the type ; and the upper gorget is very distinct, and continued 

 by means of scattered white hairs almost to the lower one. 



Another head of an old buck agrees in essential characters with 

 the one last mentioned ; but the body-skin of the same animal differs 

 from that of the type not only in its longer and darker hair and the 

 greater development of the dorsal crest, but in the presence of two 

 indistinct vertical white stripes one considerably longer than the 

 other on the hind-quarters, with faint traces of a still shorter third 

 one ; a feature in which the specimen makes a further approximation 

 to the nyala. 



Although the mountain nyala comes nearest to the species from 

 which it takes its name, in the general form of the head and the 

 character of the tail it is distinctly kudu-like ; and it tends to connect 

 the bushbuck group so closely with the kudus as to render the generic 

 separation of the latter from Tragelaphus (in which Limnotragus may 

 be included as a subgenus) no longer advisable. 



THE GIRAFFE 

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In part 2 of a paper entitled " Recherches sur 1'Okapi et les 

 giraffes de 1'Est africain," published in the Annalcs des sciences 

 naturelles, Zoologic (Paris, sr. 9, vol. xiii. 19 il), Messrs. Maurice de 

 Rothschild and H. Neuville have described and figured certain East 

 African giraffes which they regard as serving to connect Giraffa 

 camelopardalis rothscliildi with G. c. tippdskirchi. The giraffe of which 

 they give a coloured plate and refer to rotksckildi is, however, 

 tippelskirchL If its identification with the former were correct 

 rotJtschildi would have to be included in tippdskirchi. 



A mounted adult bull giraffe from north-cast Rhodesia, the skin 

 and bones of which were presented to the British Museum by Mr. H. 

 S. Thornicroft, has been described by myself in Nature for 1911 (vol. 

 Ixxxvii. p. 484) as G. c. thornicrofti. Related, apparently, to tippdskirchi, 



