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MR. R. LYDEKKER ON OLD PICTURES 



[Nov. 29, 



written " portrait of the Giraffe belonging to his Majesty." It 

 is difficult, however, to believe that the artist did not take a por- 

 trait of the Cajae Giraffe for his model, and he may have copied 

 Paterson's specimen in the British Museum. If, as I think, it 

 represents the Cape Giraffe, the painting is of very considerable 



Text-fie-. 87. 



Group of Cape (?) Giraft'es. 

 (From a Painting in the Royal Collection.) 



intei-est, as that race now appears to be extinct. Both Agasse 

 and Davis were well-known animal painters in the first quarter 

 of the last century. 



The fourth painting (text-fig. 88) represents a specimen of the 

 Mountain Zebra {^Equus zehra) in two positions ; the characteristic 



