412 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. 



difficulties of transport, and even it was no slight addition to 

 our impedimenta. However, when anything proves of value 

 one is repaid for the trouble involved in bringing it to the 

 coast ; and this was found to be of some interest, as illustrating 

 points of distinction between the northern and southern species. 

 By kind permission I am enabled to reproduce the engraving 

 of this head, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London, and quote from Mr. W. E. de Winton's Remarks on 

 the subject. 



EXTRACTS FROM REMARKS ON THE EXISTING 

 FORMS OF GIRAFFE 



By W. E. DE WiNTON, F.Z.S. 



Froni tJie Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 



There seems to be some doubt among naturalists in regard to the 

 specific relations of the Giraffes of Nubia and the adjacent countries to 

 those of Africa south of the Equator ; the almost total absence of wild- 

 killed specimens of the northern form during the last half-century, until 

 within the last year or two, is no doubt the reason for the nomenclature 

 of the two species being left in a very unsettled state. 



The exhibition of the skin of a Somaliland animal by Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas, on behalf of Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co., at a meeting of the 

 Society on 20th February 1894, made me look into the literature on the 

 subject. Since then the British Museum has been fortunate in augmenting 

 the older material by heads of both species received from the actual 

 collectors — Mr. H. A. Bryden having presented a head of the southern 

 form brought home by Khama, killed in the North Kalahari ; and Mr. 

 Arthur H. Neumann a head of the northern form, killed a little to the 

 east of the Lorogi Mountains and north of the Gwaso Nyiro (about i" N. 

 lat.) ; besides w^hich, others have been acquired by purchase. 



"Northern Form," Thomas, P.Z.S. 1894, p. 135; Matschie, Siii/g. 

 Deiitsch-Ost-Af: p. 103 (1895). 



The ground-colour varies from white to fawn ; the dark polygonal 

 markings vary from orange-red to red-chocolate, the edges being even and 

 sharply defined ; the spaces between the dark patches are generally 

 narrower, and always far more clearly defined in aged animals than in 

 those of a similar age in the southern species. The legs below the knees 

 and hocks are white. The males have a third horn in the centre of the 



