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which is specifically different from G. camelo- 
pardalis—was first poimted out by Mr. 
Rowland Ward in the columns of the 
“Wield,” although little or no attention was 
paid at the time to his letter. Some time 
later the Museum acquired the mounted 
head and neck of a young giraffe from 
German Hast Africa characterised by the 
curiously jagged, or almost star-lke, form 
of the spots, and hence referable to the 
Kalimanjaro race (G. camelopardalis tippels- 
kircht) of the common species. 
Next followed the head and neck of a 
fine old bull of the “five-horned” or Baringo 
race, from the Mount Elgon district, pre- 
sented by Sir Harry Johnston. The most 
important addition to the series is, however, 
the fine male and female of this: race 
(G. c. rothschildi) killed by Major Powell- 
Cotton in the Baringo district, and presented 
by him and Mr. Rothschild to the Museum. 
The remarkable difference in the colour and 
pattern of the markings in the two sexes 
is very striking. Hqually noteworthy is 
the circumstance that, while in bulls of the 
age of Major Cotton’s specimen the entire 
face is spotted, in older animals, as exem- 
plified by Sir H. Johnston’s Mount Elgon 
example, the spots disappear from the front 
of the face owing to the darkening of the 
ground-colour. The acquisition of the two 
complete Baringo specimens rendered it 
necessary to remove the old Cape bull from 
the exhibited series; and that race is now 
only represented by Mr. Bryden’s specimen 
of the head and neck of a younger male. 
A complete specimen of the Cape giraffe, 
which differs from the northern forms by 
its spotted legs and absence of a third horn, 
is therefore a desideratum. 
The typical, or Nubian, race of the 
species 1s represented by the head and neck 
of a young bull, recently living at Woburn 
Abbey, presented by the Duke of Bedford. 
Quite recently the exhibited series has been 
enriched by two mounted heads and necks, 
the one from the south of Lado, presented 
by Major Powell-Cotton, and the other from 
the Northern Transvaal, given by Mr. 
Rowland Ward. In the paper referred to 
these have been made the types of two 
Animal Life 
distinct races, severally named after their 
respective donors. The South Lado race is 
allied to the one from the Baringo district, 
but distinguished by its markings and colour, 
as well as by the presence of a horn over 
the right eye (if this be a constant feature). 
The North Transvaal race (of which the 
entire skin is brown), on the other hand, 
is a relative of the Cape animal, from 
which it differs by its markings and. the 
enormous size of its posterior, or occipital, 
horns. 
All these specimens are now exhibited 
side by side in the Hastern Corridor of the 
Museum, so that sportsmen may judge for 
themselves as to the validity and value of 
the characteristics by which the local races 
enumerated above are distinguished. It may 
be safely said that nothing approaching such 
a fine show has ever before been got together. 
In addition to the above, a giraffe (from 
Angola) in Mr. Rothschild’s Museum at Tring 
has been made the type of another race, allied 
to the Cape form, under the name of G. «. 
angolensis. Yet another race (G. c¢. congo- 
ensis), from the Congo, is typified by a bull 
in the Congo State Museum at Tervueren, 
near Brussels, which combines the frontal 
horn of the northern races with the spotted 
legs of the southern. Finally, the unusually 
tall Nigerian giraffe (G. ¢. peralta) is at | 
present known only by the skull and limb 
bones. 
Ws 
THE Scarce Swallow-tail (go named from a 
purely insular point of view) 
seems now to have ceased to 
be a British butterfly, although 
there are legends that it formerly visited 
our islands as a straggler; it is therefore 
rightly excluded from the British list in 
Professor Hulme’s volume in the Woburn 
Library. From the common swallow-tail 
this handsome butterfly is readily distin- 
guished by the pattern and colouring of the 
wings, as well as by the shape of the latter, 
and thei longer tails. In the mountains 
of Southern Hurope it is a comparatively 
common insect, and may be seen any day 
in spring in the Rhone Valley. Both species 
of swallow-tail have suffercd severely at the 
Scarce 
Swallowstail. 
