GIRAFFID/K 251 



G. GirafFa camelopardalis, subsp. 



Giraffa tippelskirchi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, 



p. 77, partim. 

 Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, 



vol. i, p. 214, Game Animals of Africa, p. 363, 1908, partim. 



Inhabits the district between the Victoria Nyanza and 

 Nairobi, British East Africa, and Masailand. 



Nearly allied to the next race, but the shanks of adult 

 males wholly white ; those of females partially spotted. 



Represented by the mounted skin of a female from 

 Masailand in the museum at Stuttgart, referred by Matschie 

 to tippelskirchi, and by a male from a spot about forty 

 miles east of the Victoria Nyanza, described and figured 

 on page 363 of " Game Animals of Africa." 



No specimen in collection. 



H. GirafFa camelopardalis tippelskirchi. 



Giraffa tippelskirchi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, 

 p. 77 ; Noack, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 356, 1908. 



Giraffa schillings!, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, p. 77 ; 

 Noack, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 356, 1908. 



Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 vol. i, p. 214, 1905, vol. i, p. 119, pi. xi, Game- Animals of Africa, 

 p. 361, 1908; Trouessart, La Nature, vol. xxx, p. 341, 1908; 

 Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxvi, p. 159, fig. 2, 1909; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 1910; Roosevelt, 

 African Game Trails, p. 487, 1910; M. de Rothschild and 

 Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 108, 1911. 



Giraffa camelopardalis schillings!, M. de Rothschild and Neuville, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 109, 1911. 



Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, M. de Rothschild and Neuville, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. iii, pi. ii, fig. 1, 1911, nee 

 Lydekker. 



Typical locality Lake Eyasi, German East Africa (lat. 

 3 S., long. 33 E.), to the south-east of the Victoria Nyanza, 

 whence the range extends eastwards to Kilimanjaro, and 

 probably southwards into Portuguese East Africa. 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



Spots (in both sexes) lighter coloured than in males of 

 rothschildi, very irregular and jagged in outline, and often 

 displaying a distinctly stellate form ; shanks typically olive- 



