NOTES AND 
Mr. R. LyDEKKER writes:—“ Since the article 
in last month’s issue of ANIMAL 
Lir—E was in type I have 
obtaimed, through the courtesy 
of Mr. Rothschild, a painting of the adult 
bull giraffe from Angola in his museum at 
Tring, a photograph from which is herewith 
given. From all the giraffes figured in the 
article referred to, Mr. Rothschild’s animal 
differs by the absence of the unpaired horn 
on the forehead, the apparent absence of this 
appendage in the bulls at Woburn Abbey 
and in the London 
Zoological Gardens 
bemg due to imma- 
turity. The Tring 
specimen further 
differs from all the 
others, with the ex- 
ception of the one 
from the Congo in the 
Tervueren Museuni, 
in having the legs 
spotted nearly to the 
hoofs, and also in the 
tawny, instead of 
white, ground-colour 
of the portion below 
the knees and hocks. 
“As regards the 
general coloration of 
the Tring specimen, it 
may be noted that the 
markings are of the 
netted rather than of 
the blotched type, the 
light lines on the neck 
and much of the body 
being white or whitish. The spots on the 
face are confined to the area lying below a 
longitudinal line running below the eye to 
the angle of the mouth. There is a small 
and indistinctly defined triangular area below 
the ear in which the ground-colour is white, 
and thus in strong contrast to the tawny of 
the face, and the under-parts are fully 
spotted. The body-spots have very ill- 
defined margins, and are yery brown in 
colour, thereby differing markedly from the 
usual rufous or @n old bulls) dark chocolate 
The Angola 
Giraffe. 
ADULT BULL GIRAFFE FROM ANGOLA. 
(Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis.) 
COMMENTS. 
tint. The spotting is of the same general 
type as that of the Tervueren giratfe (which, 
it may be remembered, was made the type 
of a new sub-species, under the name of 
Giraffa camelopardalis congoensis in the 
original article); but the spots on the upper 
part of the neck are shorter, the long second 
one in the middle row on the side of the 
neck being wanting. Moreover, there are 
more spots in the region of the withers and 
shoulder, while the margins of all the spots 
are less well-defined. Again, there is a much 
more sudden break-up 
into small spots on 
the middle transverse 
line of the thigh than 
in the Tervueren 
specimen, although 
this feature 1s by no 
means so marked ag 
in the Kordofan 
eirafte. 
“The absence of a 
distinct frontal horn 
(which is represented 
by a mere swelling, or 
tuberosity) aftilates 
the Angola giraffe to 
the Cape form (G. c¢. 
capensis). In the 
typical phase of that 
race, as represented by 
the old bull formerly 
exhibited in the 
Natural History 
Museum, the spots are 
blacker, the ground- 
colour is tawny, and 
the whole coloration is of the blotched type, 
the borders of the spots being ill-defined, and 
the intervening light areas very wide. Much 
the same features are displayed in the head 
and neck of a younger bull of the Cape race 
from the Kalahari desert exhibited in the 
Natural History Museum and figured by 
Mr. W. H. de Winton in the “ Proceedings” 
of the Zoological Society of Iondon for 
1897 (p. 281). Perhaps the “ blotched ” type 
is not quite so conspicuous in this specimen 
as in the aforesaid old bull, which was 
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