1908.] 



A YOUNG KORDOFAX GIEAFFE, 



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The colouring and pattern of the skin was well marked in the 

 new-born Giraffe, the general appearance being a slightly closer 

 approach to the reticulate type than to the blotched type of its 

 parents, the edges of the dark fawn-coIou]-ed patches being 

 sharper, and the white reticulum being brighter and better defined. 

 As in the parents, the front of the face is fawn-colour, the colour 

 extending more widely than in the Nubian and Nigerian Giraffes, 

 there being only a rim of white round the eyes ; whilst in the other 

 two forms, and especially in that from Nigeria, the facial 

 fawn-colour is a relatively nai-row band, leaving the sides of the 



Text-fig. 18. 



Female Kordofan Girafle about one week old. 



face pale. There is a dark spot between the nostrils similar to 

 that present when the Nigerian Giraffe was younger, bvit which in 

 the latter is not now noticeable. The sides of the face have fawn- 

 coloui-ed patches, larger and more numerous than in the Nigerian 

 form (text-figs. 19 & 20). The parallel wrinkles on the face, to 

 which Sir Ray Lankester recently directed attention (P. Z. S. 1907, 

 p. 115 and text-figs. 42 & 43), are similar to those in the parents. 

 Sir Ray Lankester informs me that, in examining the Giraffe in 

 question a few days aftei' birth, he thought there were tiuces 



