1904.] SUBSPECIES OF GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS. 207 



[Since this paper was written, I have received a letter from 

 Captain Stanley Flower,, of Giza, directing my attention to the 

 difficulty of defining the habitat of this race from that of the 

 typical form. Giraffes being luiknown in Lower Nubia, 1 can 

 only presume that tijpica comes fi-om the Abyssinian, or Kassala, 

 side of Upper Nubia (Egyptian Sudan). A photograph of a 

 female Kordofan Giraffe sent by Capt. Flower agrees with the 

 specimens mentioned above with respect to the spotting of the 

 limbs. The spots on the shoulders and neck differ, however, from 

 those in the London specimens by their more jagged contour and 

 the wider intervals between them, this being doubtless due to 

 the greater age of the specimen. This specimen serves to confirm 

 the distinctness of this race from tyjnca, although approximating 

 it to cotioni.^ 



3. South Lado Giraffe. 



GiRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS COTTOXI. (Plate XY. fig. 1.) 



Rab. That portion of the interior of Uganda lying immediately 

 south of Lado, which is itself 5^" north of the equator. 



Major Powell-Cotton informs me that this Gii'afi'e was shot on 

 March 15th, 1903, on Koten plain, at an elevation of 2550 feet. 

 Koten lies to the extreme south of the Topora (Doboi-sa of the 

 maps) country, and is about S" 50' N. by 34° 30' E. I might 

 have called it the Topora (or Doborsa) Gii'afte, but have preferred 

 to associate it with Lado as being a much better known locality, 

 despite the fact that the lattei- is generally connected with the 

 Congo side of the Nile. 



Apparently very closely related to the Baiingo race, from which 

 (judging from the single example available) the male differs in 

 the following points : — 



The spots on the neck are deep chestnut-brown instead of black, 

 and show no tendency to split up into smaller spots by the de- 

 velopment of lighter lines radiating from the centre. Moreover, 

 the spots themselves are of more regular and more squared form, 

 those on the lower part of the neck being so arranged that the 

 fawn-coloured interspaces form continuovis transverse bands. In 

 G. c. rothschildi, on the other hand, the spots on the neck of the 

 male are ari-anged somewhat alternately, so that no such trans- 

 verse light bands can be traced. 



The spotting of the face is confined to an area lying con- 

 siderably below a longitudinal line drawn through the eye. The 

 spots between the eye and the ear are smaller, and do not extend 

 vipwards on to the horns ; while the hind aspect of the horns and 

 the portion of the crown of the head below them are likewise 

 devoid of spots, although fully spotted in the Baringo race. The 

 white area on the side of the head is also much smaller and much 

 less conspicuous than in the type male of the latter. Moreover, 

 the spots on the under surface of the head (inter-ramine area) 

 are much less numerous, and (like the sides of the face) bi'own 



