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superciliary region thrown into the normal condition assumed 

 when the animal is alert. I also noticed that though the 

 horizontal bands between eye and mouth never actually disappear, 

 they are intensified by a muscular contraction resembling a 

 sneer which sometimes is exhibited by the Gu-alfe. I found that 

 the third Giraffe in the Gardens (a West African specimen) did 

 not exhibit any colour-bands on the face. 



Text-fig. 45. 



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Colour-striping of the face and muzzle of a Transvaal Giraffe ( G-iraffci cainelopar- 

 dalis tvardi). Drawn from a specimen in tlie British Museum. 



I next proceeded to examine from this point of view the 

 fine series of Giraffe heads and necks exhibited in the public, 

 gallery of the British Museum, as well as several unmounted 

 skins. I found that several of these specimens exhibit colour- 

 banding over the eye and some of them below it, whilst these same 

 specimens exhibit strong horizontal " fringes " or banding of the 

 hair between the eye and muzzle, and some also show banding on 

 the lower lip (see text-figs. 44-48). On the other hand, some of 

 the specimens exhibit little or no trace of these bands. In none 

 have I found any trace of the bands in the mediad position 

 between the horns and between the eyes, shown by the foetal 

 specimen drawn in Plate Y., which itself shows no trace of the 

 pre-orbital horizontal stripes. 



