BUSH-PIGS 21 



THE NETTED GIRAFFE 



(Page 374) 



This species was named by Mr. de Winton .in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History for 1899 (sen 7, vol. iv. p. 211), and 

 not, as stated in the text, in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1897. 



A piece of skin from the fore-part of the body of an East African 

 giraffe, now in the British Museum, has been described by myself 

 (Nature, vol. Ixxxvii. p. 484, 1911) as the type of a new race under 

 the name of Giraffa reticiilata nigricans. It differs from the typical 

 race by the white lines being rather narrower, and the dark areas 

 smaller and brownish rufous, with a tinge of blackness, and a distinct 

 blackish streak or star in the centre. The home of this race is not 

 improbably the Kenia district. To a certain extent it connects the 

 typical reticulata with G. cainelopardalis rothscJiildi. 



THE BUSH-PIGS 



(Pages 391-396) 



The classification of the bush-pigs (Potamochoerus} has been revised 

 by Dr. E. Lonnberg in the Arkiv for Zoologi for 1910 (vol. vii. No. 6). 

 In this paper four African species of the genus are recognised, viz., 

 ( I ) P. choeropotamus, typically from the Cape and Natal, but represented 

 in Portuguese E. Africa, Mashonaland, and N.E. Rhodesia by P. c. 

 mashona, in the district to the west of Lake Nyasa by P. c. johnstoni, 

 in the Mweru district and southwards to the Zambesi by P. c. nyasae, 

 and in the Kilimanjaro region by P. c. daemonis. (2) P. hassama of 

 Abyssinia. (3) P. intermedius of the Ruwenzori district of Uganda. 

 (4) P. porcus, typically from Liberia to the interior of the Cameruns, 

 but represented in the coast district of the Cameruns by P. p. pictus ; in 

 the northern part of the western French Congo and southwards by 

 P. p. albifrons of du Chaillu ; and in the Ubangi district, dividing 

 French from Belgian Congo, by P. />. ubangensis, characterised by its 

 white muzzle. 



The chief difference from the classification followed in the text of 

 " The Game Animals of Africa " is the relegation of Johnston's bush-pig 

 (P- 395) to tne grade of a local race of P. chocropotamus, and the 

 recognition of the Uganda P. intermedius as a species by itself. The 



