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he could have overlooked the fact that the locality for the type 

 species was given as Sennaar, and that the name applied primarily 

 to the Northern form. 



Thus the names have been accepted until quite lately, and 

 though I have been well aware that they could not stand as they 

 were, still I have put off publishing any remarks on this animal, 

 hoping that it would be my good fortune to come across a specimen 

 in some collection which might some day be entrusted to me for 

 working out ; but the necessity for the present communication is 

 shown by the receipt of Mr. S. Rhoads's paper (Proc. Acad. Philad. 

 1896, p. 518), on the mammals collected by Dr. Doiialdson Smith 

 during his recent expedition to Lake Rudolf, in which a Griraffe 

 is included. 



Mr. Rhoads seems to have read the short notice of Mr. Thomas's 

 remarks (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 135), and then, after having looked up 

 Linnseus's description and found that ^Ethiopia was the locality 

 given for the typical specimen, without reference to any of the 

 authors above quoted, to have jumped to the conclusion that the 

 Southern form must require a new name, and so proposed that of 

 Oiraffa australis. I have, however, shown that this name was not 

 needed and that it will thus fall as a synonym. Mr. Thomas's 

 description, having been based on the large male of the Cape form 

 set up in the British Museum (collected by Mr. Burke for Lord 

 Derby, by whom it was presented to the Xational Collection), 

 designated the type of Mr. Rhoads's G. australis, in founding 

 which the description was quoted — a quotation which, like Lesson's 

 quotation of Levaillant's figures, alone saves the name from being 

 a nomen nudum. 



I will now give a short description of the two forms and point 

 out as far as can be ascertained the distribution of each : it will 

 be noticed that the range of the two species is entirely confined to 

 the " Steppe Country" of Sir Harry Johnston's map of Sportsman's 

 Africa. 



I do not admit Mungo Park's brown species without spots, of the 

 Western Sudan, or the equally mythical " white-spotted slender 

 form 23 feet high " of Farini, reported from Lake Ngami ; for 

 thoroughly misleading facts on natural history, I think the latter 

 writer is hard to beat. 



GiBAFFA, Briss. 



Giraffa, Briss. Regnum Animale, Quadr. et Cetac. p. 87 (1762). 

 Cameloparclalis, Grmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181 (1788). 



The Nubian oe Theee-hoened Gieaffe. 



GiEAFFA CAMELOPAEDALis (Linn.). (Figs. 1, 2, p. 280.) 



Cerviis cnmelopardalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. (10) i. p. 66 (1758); 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. (12) i. p. 92 (1766). 



Giraffa camelojjardalis, Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 125 (1780) (in 



