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of the sudden breaking-up of the large spots of the body into small and irregular 
ones on the upper part of the lmbs, and also, so far as can be seen, in the presence 
of similar spots on the inner side of the limbs. As regards the spotting of the body 
and neck of Sw William Jardine’s specimen, this agrees (making allowance for the 
somewhat crude execution of the plate) with that of the London specimen, although 
the small spots on the neck of the latter are not shown. The much darker colour of 
the spots in Sir William Jardine’s animal is, of course, merely due to its greater age. 
I have no doubt whatever that the latter and the two immature animals now in the 
London Zoological Gardens belong to the same form, which is distinguishable from 
the typical Nubian G. camelopardalis, as represented by the Woburn specimens, by 
the characteristics already mentioned. ‘The Kordofan race may therefore be known as 
G. camelopardalis antiquorune. 
I now come to the mounted male specimen in the British Museum, which is from 
Quashengerhue Plateau, British East Africa, and is shown in Fig. 4. It is very 
differently marked from either of the preceding animals; and, as shown by its dark 
colour and the full development of the median frontal horn, was fully adult at the 
time of its death. Compared with the Nubian giraffe (Fig. 1), the markings on the 
body differ by their more irregular form and greater individual variation in size. The 
line of five large and nearly equal-sized spots extending in the former obliquely 
backwards to the middle of the back is wanting im the present specimen. On the 
other hand, it has two very large spots, placed one directly above the other in the 
neighbourhood of the shoulder-blade, which are quite unrepresented in the Nubian 
bull. Other differences in the form and pattern of the spots will be apparent from a 
comparison of the two figures, but the presence of large spots on the inner side of 
the upper half of the fore-limb and on the under-parts may be specially noted, 
the imner side of the thigh beine also partially spotted. Then, again, the spots 
on the fore-legs stop short of the knee, and in the hind-legs do not extend below the 
hock. On the sides of the face the spots are much more numerous and cover a 
larger area between the eye and the horn, and lkewise extend more on to the front 
of the face below the eye. Very noticeable in the Museum bull is the white triangular 
area extending downwards from the crown of the head through the eye and behind 
the ear. It should be added that the ground-colour (for this specimen is distinctly a 
spotted animal) is much darker than in the Woburn bull, but this may be partly due 
to difference of age. 
From the Kordofan giraffe the specimen under consideration is at once distinguished 
by the large size of the spots on the limbs and thighs, and the absence of any trace 
of the sudden breaking-up of large spots into small ones as the limbs are reached 
which constitutes such a characteristic feature of the former. In the young Kordofan 
bull there is a small white area below the ear, but it is neither so large nor so 
conspicuous as in the Quashengerhue bull. 
That the latter animal is racially distinct from both the Nubian and Kordofan 
fornrs of the species seems therefore most likely. Not improbably it is specifically 
identical with the giraffe obtained by Sir Harry Johnston at Mount Elgon, as represented 
by the mounted head and neck of an old bull im the British Museum. It is true 
that in this specimen (Fig. 7) the posterior rudimentary horns are much more strongly 
developed than in the Quashengerhue specimen, while the ground-colour is darker, the 
form of the spots somewhat different, and the light-coloured area on the side of the upper 
part of the face less conspicuous; but these differences may perhaps be due to age. 
For the present, at any rate, I do not intend to assign a distinct name to the 
Quashengerhue giraffe, as it may prove to be identical with G. camelopardalis schillingst, 
from the district between Taveta and Mount Kilimanjaro, which is chiefly characterised, 
