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Z>. Shanks coloured, or spotted, or both 



together. 

 5 . Ground-colour lighter. 



a 6 . Spots stellate ; shanks sometimes 

 white, spotted superiorly, always 

 fully so in immature individuals ; 



anterior horn medium or small G. c. tippelskirchi. 



6 6 . Spots not distinctly stellate. 



a 7 . Anterior horn large ; shanks spotted 



to hoofs G. c. congoensis. 



V. Anterior horn smaller ; shanks 



uniformly fawn G. c. thornicrofti* 



6 5 . Ground-colour darker G. c. infumata. 



B. Anterior horn rudimentary or obsolete ; 

 shanks coloured and fully spotted. 



a. Occipital horns strongly developed, colour- 



pattern substellate G. c. wardi. 



b. Occipital horns (so far as known) obsolete, 

 a'. Colour-pattern approximating to the 



netted type G. c. angolensis* 



V . Colour-pattern of the blotched type G. c. capensis. 



A. Giraffa eamelopardalis eamelopardalis. 



" Nubian Giraffe," Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ii, p. 217, 1838. 



Giraffa eamelopardalis typica, Bryden, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 489, 1899 ; Lydekker, Suppl. to do. p. 4, 1902, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 205, pis. ix and x ; Alexander, From 

 Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 390, 1907 ; Trouessart, La Nature, 

 vol. xxx, p. 342, 1908; Ward, Eecords of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 116, 1910. 



Typical locality Eastern Sudan, or perhaps Abyssinia; 

 the range extending, according to Trouessart, into the 

 Timbuktu district of the Western Sudan. 



Colour-pattern approximating to that of G. reticulata, but 

 the coloured areas smaller and sandy or chestnut, and the 

 light lines buffi sh white ; front of face sparsely, and sides of 

 same fully spotted ; large spots on shoulders and upper part 

 of fore-legs ; shanks white, the hind pair more or less spotted 

 superiorly. Anterior horn well developed, but no occipital 

 horns. 



Two types of colour-pattern occur in the giraffes of the 

 Eastern Sudan, namely, that just described and the one 

 recorded under the next heading, but which represents the 

 typical C. giraffa of Linnaeus, it is impossible to decide. 



