1906.] 



FCETUS OF THE GIRAFFE. 



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The head was completely furry with longish close-set hairs, 

 definitely brown in colour though palish, and showing distinct 

 whorls. There was one whorl above each eye, another between 

 the eye and the ear, and a median unpaired whorl in the occipital 

 region. I saw nothing of the kind in the nasal i^egion. The 

 eyelashes were quite conspicuous (see text-fig. 108). 



Text-fig. 108. 



Head of f'cetus of Giraffe. 

 A, commencement of mane ; B, C, D, wLorls of hair. 



- Besides this general hairy covering, most pronounced upon the 

 head, there were other tiucts covered with much stouter hairs. 

 Each fore limb had (see text-fig. 109) a strongly marked tract,, 

 extending -over a part of the carpus and a portion of the meta- 



