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While the body spots have tended to become more 

 distinct in the southern race, the horns on the other hand 

 have tended to modify. In the Nubian form a very 

 prominent third horn appears in front of and midway 

 between the others, and in some eastern types there is a 

 tendency to the formation of a five-horned race, by the 

 appearance of excrescences behind the original horns. 

 Although, in respect of the third horn, a very marked 

 contrast is evident between the extreme northern and 

 southern types, there does not appear any very even 

 and constant gradation between them. An inspection 

 of fourteen giraffe skulls all shot by a professional hunter 

 within a few days' march of each other in German South- 

 West Africa, revealed the presence of considerable variety 

 in the horns. The forehead enlargements varied much 

 in size in individuals, and there were, in one or two, even 

 indications of the two additional rear horns. 



The distribution of the giraffe comprised, outside the 

 West African forest zone, nearly the whole of the Ethiopian 

 region from the Tropic of Cancer to the Orange River 

 and from Nigeria to Somaliland. At the present day 

 it does not range farther south than Komati Poort 

 (lat. 25 S.). The species has increased considerably in 

 the Transvaal Game Reserve of recent years, and is found 

 sparingly through Portuguese East Africa up to the 

 Zambezi, and in the northern Kalahari, the western part 

 of Matabeleland, and Khama's country. Thence giraffes 

 are found wherever the nature of the country is suitable, 

 through most of German South- W r est Africa, Angola, and 

 north-western Rhodesia west of the Zambezi, Nigeria, 

 the Congo, German and British East Africa, Somaliland, 

 and the whole of the country generally known as the 

 Sudan, to the west coast. They do not seem to be native 

 to Northern Rhodesia, east of the Zambezi, Nyasaland, 



