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Quashengeshu (pronounced Uashengeshu) plateau to the east of Lake 

 Baringo, from which it is separated by a forest-clad mountain-range. 

 The mounted head and neck of a " five-horned " bull giraffe in the 

 British Museum (fig. 69) brought from Mount Elgon by Sir H. H. 

 Johnston doubtless belongs to this race. It is true that the whole colour 

 is much darker, the white area below the ear smaller and less distinct, 

 and the spotting on the face much less developed ; but in another 

 specimen from the same locality, figured by Sir H. H. Johnston in The 



FIG. 69. Head of Bull Baringo Giraffe from Mount Klgon. 



Uganda Protectorate, these features are much the same as in the type. 

 The presumed female of this race is a specimen in the British Museum 

 killed by Major Powell-Cotton near Lake Baringo. As I am informed 

 that bulls precisely similar to the type Quashengeshu specimen occur 

 with the Lake Baringo herd, and as this statement is confirmed by a 

 male skin from that district I have had the opportunity of inspecting, 

 there seems every reason for associating the female with the present 

 race. The marked discrepancy in the coloration of the two sexes is 

 therefore a very distinctive feature of this race at this age. I am, 



