1904.] ON OLD PICTUKES OF GIRAFFES AND ZEBRAS. 339 



absence on one side, and the veiy small size on the othei', of the 

 masseteric shield. Femoral pores 17-19. From snont to vent 

 70 millim. 



Di'. de Bedriaga has also sent me on loan n large male, measur- 

 ing 83 millim. from snout to vent, from Batoum, received from 

 the St. Petersburg Museum, which also belongs to the var. rudis. 

 The cheeks are much swollen, and the depth of the head equals 

 the distance between the centre of the eye and the anterior 

 border of the tympanum. The hind limb reaches the shoulder. 

 45 scales across the middle of the body. 21-22 femoral pores. 

 25 scales under the fourth toe. Rostral foi'ming a narrow suture 

 with the frontonasal. Only thi'ee labials anterior to the sub- 

 ocular. This specimen, which I have cai-efully compared with 

 Bedi'iaga's L. depressa, var. rudis, confirms Boettger's identifica- 

 tion of a Batoum specimen in 1889.] 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXIL 



Three of the type specimens of Lacerta depressa, Cameraiio ; enlarged tiguves 

 showing upper and side views of head and posterior part of back, with hind linih 

 and base of tail. 



a. Male (no. 1, p. 333) X 2 ; h. Female (no. 3, p. 334) X 21 ; 

 c. Female (no. 2, p. 334), X 2. 



6. On Old Pictures of Giraffes and Zebras. 

 By R. Lydekkee. 



[Received October 7, 1904.] 



(Text-figures 85-89.) 



The Natural History Branch of the British Museum has re- 

 cently received from the Lord Chambei-lain, through Mi'. Lionel 

 Oust, Sui'veyor of the King's Pictui-es and Works of Art, four 

 photographs from paintings of Giiuffes and a Zebra preserved in 

 the Royal Oollection, some of which are of considerable interest 

 from an historical point of view. 



The painting from which text-figure 85 is taken represents an 

 immature Nubian Girafi'e presented in 1827 by Mohamed Ali, 

 Pasha of Egypt, to his Majesty Geoi'ge the Fourth. This animal, 

 which sui'vived but a short time at Windsor, was the fii-st 

 I'eceived alive in Britain, and one of the four first imported into 

 Europe in modern times. Of its three fellows, one was sent 

 by the Pasha to the Sultan of Turkey, the second to Vienna, 

 and the third to Pai'is, where it attracted an enoi-mous amount of 

 attention*. Although, owing to the immature condition of the 

 animal, the frontal horn is not fully developed, the painting dis- 

 plays all the characteristics of the typical Nubinii i-ace of Giraffa 

 camelopai'dcdis, such as the net-like style of the markings, the 

 white " stockings," and the comparatively large size of the spots 

 on the upper part of the legs, A portrait of Mr. Oi-oss, the 



* See Renshaw, 'Natui'al Historv Essaj's,' p. 105 (1904). 



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