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appeared from the hind quarters and legs ; so in the Giraffe we see 

 the blotches disappearing from the under surface and legs. 



Recently a new Giraffe has been discovered in Somaliland, and 

 a description of it appeared in the Saturday Review of 2ist July 

 1 894, p. 72. It is distinguished from the South African Giraffe ' by 

 a complete and whole body colouring of rich bright chestnut (I 

 suppose the chestnut colour of the horse), scarcely separable by 

 very fine, 1 almost invisible lines of creamy white of hexagonal 

 shape ; ' while * in its South African cousin the markings are 

 widely and clearly defined,' as seen in Fig. 57. 



Hunters in South Africa have often described the Giraffe as of 

 a chestnut colour. This colour is common to the Horse and 

 the Ox. This ' new Giraffe ' does not appear to differ from the ' old 

 Giraffe ' any more than one grey dappled Horse differs from another 

 grey dappled Horse. Compare different parts of the Horse in 

 Fig. 34. In parts the reticulations are fine, in others they are broad, 

 and in Fig. 37 they are still broader. 



1 At Rowland Ward's I was told that the divisions between the polygonal blotches 

 were about one inch broad. 



