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sexes, I was curious to put them on the scales : taking the dried skulls of 

 two wild-killed Abyssinian animals, I found that of the male weighed 19 

 lb. 8 oz., while that of the female only weighed 7 lb. 6 oz. The bones of 

 the skull of the female are verj' smooth and thin ; the whole of the upper 



Young Female Giraffe of the Northern Species 



( Giraffa camelopardalis). 

 (From a Photograph of a Mounted Head.) 



side of the skull of the male is covered with a rough superficial osseous 

 growth, which has its centre in the three horns, gradually enveloping the 

 whole of the upper parts of the skull, forming lumps on the supraoccipital 

 and supraorbital bones, and covering' the face to the end of the nasals and 

 the cheeks, so that all the true bones are completely hidden. 



Mr. Arthur H. Neumann— to whom I am much indebted for loan of 



