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marked with two irregular black bands. Crest very high, sur- 

 mounted by a standing mane banded alternately brown and 

 white. Colour of the head, neck, and uppej parts of the body^ 

 reddish brown, irregularly banded and marked with dark brown 

 stripes, stronger on the head and neck, and gradually becoming 

 fainter until lost behind the shoulder. Dorsal line broad ; belly, 

 legs, and tail, white. 



Still found within the Cape Colony. Inhabits, the open plains 

 south of the Vaal River in immense herds. 



Order. RLMINANTIA. 



Genus. Cauelopardai.is. 



16. Camelopardalis Giraffa. The Giraffe. Kameel o//^e Co/)e 

 Colonists. \ntOQt\a of the Matabili, 



In stature the tallest of mammiferous animals. Adult male 

 twelve feet high at the shoulder, and eighteen at the crown of 

 the head. Legs slender, seven feet in length. Feet terminating 

 in a divided hoof. No succentorial hoofs. Body short. Withers 

 elevated, a scanty, upright, rufous mane extending along the 

 whole neck. Back oblique. Tail thirty-four inches long, ter- 

 minating in a tuft of bristly black hair about the same length, 

 which reaches to the hocks. Head light and tapering, thirty- 

 four inches long; provided with osseous peudnncles (common 

 to both sexes) covered with a hairy skin, and terminating in a 

 tuft of black hair. A tuberculum on the chaffron. No muzzle. 

 Upper lip entire. Eyes large and melting. No lachrymary 

 sinus. Ears pure white, and ample. Callosity on the breast. 

 Tongue very long, pointed, and flexible. General colour deep 

 sienna, with large angular ferruginous spots, variously disposed 

 over the whole; each spot darker in the centre. Belly and 

 cheeks white, witli dark blotches. 



Female sixteen or seventeen feet in height itt the crown, of a 

 dirty white colour, with pale ferruginous spots as hi the male. 

 Mammae four. 



Gregarious in small troops. Inhabits the great plains of the 

 interior. 



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