1891.] ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF TIIIC GIRAFIE. 445 



Fig. ] 1 . Canccllaria exigita, p. 430. 



12. Mifra. miranda. p. 440. 



13. Marginella carinata, p. 440. 



14. hrazic7-i, p. 44(). 



Plate XXXV. 



Fig. 15. Scfdaria didim-fa, p. 441. 



Ifi. Odostomia {TtirbonUla) fmcheri, ]). 141. 



17. ( ) coHsavr/uinea, p. 441. 



18. ( ) constrk-ta, p. 441. 



19-19 i. Solaritim atkiiisnni, p. 441. 



20. Bulla incommoda, p. 442. 



21. dylichna ordinaria, p. 442. 



22. Telliim/a auhacuniinafd.. p. 142. 



23. Nticula dilecfa, p. 442. 



24. iiinhonata, p. 44.'!. 



25. Pectcn challengeri, p. 443. 

 2fi. Lima mii.rrnj/i, p. 444. 

 27. Lima a.nsfralis, p. 444. 



5. 0\\ the present Distribution of the Giraffe, Soutli of the 

 Zambesi, and on the best means of ."securing living 

 Specimens for European Collections. By H. A. Bkyden. 



[Eeceived June 15, 1891.] 



Large game animals are disappearing so rapidly from Soutliern 

 Africa that each year now sees the ancient limits of occurrence more 

 and more circumscribed. 



Guns are now plentiful among native tribes, right away to the 

 Zambesi, and, with the rapid advent of Europeans and European 

 money into once remote territories, horses, on which depends the suc- 

 cessful chase of many of the fauna, are now more readily procured. 



In twenty years' time it may be safely said there will be very few 

 Giraffes left, even in the inaccessible deserts where they yet seclude 

 themselves. "With the practical disappearance of the Rhinoceros 

 from South Africa, and the approaching extinction of the Hippo- 

 potamus, the thick-skinned Giraffe is now much more sought after 

 as a means of supplying the universally used sjambok or colonial 

 whip. The hide of a good bull Giraffe is worth now from £A to £^ 

 for this purpose, that of a cow a little less. Small wonder then that 

 native and Dutch hunters alike have been extremely active of late 

 years in htlnting this interesting, beautiful, and defenceless creature. 



At the present day the head-quarters of the Giraffe may be said 

 to be in the parched desert country comprising the North Kalahari. 



A few years since they were to be found at no great distance from 

 Khama's old capital, Shoshong ; now they are first encountered in 

 the bush and forest-region beyond Kanne, or Klaballa, on the way 

 from Shoshong to Lake Ngami. This waterless tract, well called 

 thirst-land, serves them as a safe retreat. From Kanne to the 

 Botletli River, and thence halfway to the lake, Khama reserves 



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