1905.] NIGERIAN ANB KILIMAXJARO GIRAFFES. 121 



on tlie liind-quai'ters. On the liind-quarters the colour of the 

 network is whity brown, but it darkens anteriorly. 



The Nigerian Giraffe is evidently nearly allied to the Nubian 

 G. c. typica, from which it is readily distinguished by its generally 

 paler colour (especially on the head) and its more numei'ous and 

 differently arranged spots. 



The distinctness of this veiy pale-coloured Giraffe from all other 

 representatives of the group is thus sufficiently apparent. The 

 contrast is most marked between this race (in which it may be 

 presumed the two sexes ai'e approximately the same colour) and 

 the Baringo Giiuffe {G, c. rothschildi) or " Black Giraffe," in which 

 the bulls are extremely dark. It would be interesting to know if 

 the countries respectively inhabited by these two races present 

 features which would generally accord with these two very 

 distinct types of coloration. 



The female of the Kilimanjaro Giraffe {G. c. tijjpelskirchi, 

 PI. XI.) requires little or nothing in the Avay of description, the 

 Plate " speaking for itself." The specimen exhibits all the 

 characteristic features of the typical tippelskirchi, as represented 

 in Proc. Zool. fSoc. 1904, i. p. 214, fig. 28. The spots on the body 

 are of the characteristic jagged type, with the intervening network 

 pattern very narrow. On the neck the spots ai-e of considerable 

 size, with wide intervals between ; but they decrease in size and 

 become more approximated on the body, and on the limbs they are 

 veiy numerous. They cover nearly the Avhole of the inner surface 

 of the thighs and both sides of the limbs as far down as the fetlocks. 

 On the lower part of the legs the ground-colour is olive- fawn, but 

 on the upper part-of the fore legs and shoulders it passes into whity 

 brown ; while on the last few inches of the neck and the whole of 

 the sides of the face the ground-colouir is white. The spots on 

 the sides of the head are blackish brown, but they are elsewhere 

 some shade of brown-fawn, dai-kest on the back and gra.diially 

 paling on the legs. They nowhei'e show dark centres. There is 

 no trace of a third horn, but this is probably merely a character- 

 istic of the female. 



Mr. Buxton's specimen emphasises the marked distinctness of 

 the Kilimanjai'O Giraffe from all the other races of the species. 

 This race is indeed the most beautiful of all the Giraffes, and 

 is especially characterised by the fulness of its spotting. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XL 



Female Kiliruaiijaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tiJ^pe!skircJli), from the 

 specimen presented to the British Museum by Mr. T. F. Victor Buxton. 



Plate XIL 



Fig. 1. Head and neck of male Nigenan Giraffe {Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), 

 from the specimen presented to the British Museum by Captain Gosling. 



2. Occipital view of head of same. 



3. „ ,, „ Giraffa camelopardalis cottoni. 



