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G. c. tippelskirchi, although the dark markings show no trace of the 

 ragged and star-like form characteristic of that race. 



In all the remaining races of this species the frontal horn is 

 rudimentary ; and the limbs are more or less fully spotted to the 

 hoofs. The first of these races is the Angola giraffe (G. c. 

 angolensis\ which is typified by a mounted male in Mr. Rothschild's 

 Museum at Tring (fig. 72), from the Cunene river, 150 miles south-west 



FIG. 72. The Angola Giraffe. 



of Humbe. The markings are more of the network type than in 

 G. c. capensis. The spots on the face arc confined to an area lying 

 below a longitudinal line running beneath the eye to the angle of the 

 mouth ; and there is a small and indistinct triangular area below the 

 ear in which the ground-colour is white. The body-spots are large, 

 with ill-defined margins, and brown in colour ; but there is a sudden 

 break into smaller spots about the middle of the thigh. The ground- 

 colour is white or whitish ; and the legs arc fully spotted to the hoofs, 



