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a. 



A. With a large frontal horn. 

 Fore legs white and unspotted from below tlie knee ; 

 front part of face sometimes spotted. 



1. Nubian Giraffe. 



GiRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS TYPICA. (Plates IX. & X.) 



Cervus cmnelo2)ardalis Linn. Syst. N"at. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 98 (1766). 



Hah. Upper ISTubia and Abyssinia. 



Sexes nearly or quite alike in respect to foim and colour of 

 markings. 



Spots large, apparently chestnut-coloured at all ages, more oi- 

 less distinctly quadrangular in form, and divided by a coarse net- 

 w-ork of comparatively narrow light lines, which are huffish white 

 in immatui-e bulls, and nearly white in cows of same age. Front 

 of face in bulls somewhat spotted, and sides fully spotted. 



JS'o prominent occipital (posterior) horns. 



In the immatui-e male figured in PI. IX. a notable feature is 

 a row of five large spots, of which the first is pai-tially divided, 

 extending from just below the point of the shoulder in a curved 

 line to the middle of the back. On the outer side of the fore- 

 limb the spots extend well down to the knee, and in the hind- 

 limb a considerable distance down the cannon-bone. The under- 

 parts are comparatively free from spots, as is the inner sm-face of 

 the upper segments of both limbs. 



In the female (PI. X.) the spots are smaller and more numerous, 

 this being especially noticeable on the hind-quartei-s and the 

 upper part of the fore-legs. Correlated with this is the gi-eatei' 

 width of the light interspaces, which are nearly white on the 

 greater part of the body. Faint spotting occurs on the belly and 

 the fore part of the inner surface of the front legs. 



It is important to notice that the genei^al pattern of the 

 coloi-ation is the same in both sexes. 



There is at present living in the collection at Woburn Abbe}' 

 an immature male Giraffe fi-om Abyssinia of about the same 

 appai-ent age as the youngei' of the two females from the Sudan, 

 which were purchased at the same time as the bull shown in 

 Plate IX. With the exception that the forehead is decidedly 

 lighter in colour, and that there are much fewer spots on the 

 sides of the face, this young male accords in general characters 

 and colour with the typical ISTubian race, fi-om which I see no 

 reason to separate the Abyssinian form. A male skeleton in 

 the British Museum shows that when adult the front horn in the 

 Abyssinian Giraffe is fully developed. A photograph of a pair of 

 Abyssinian Gii'affes lately imported by Mr. Menges shows the 

 type of coloration. 



2. Kordofan Giraffe. 



GiRAFPA CAMELOPARDALIS ANTIQUORUM. (Plate XI.) 



Camelojjarclalis antiquorum Jardine, ' Naturalist's Library ' 

 vol. xxi. p. 187, pi. xxi. (1838). 

 Hcib. Kordofan. 



