210 MR. K. LYBEKKER OX THE [Feb. 2, 



imacqiiaiiited with the feiwale of the South Lado Girafte, and 

 that when this is known it may turn out that the difference in 

 the coloiation of the two sexes may be much less pi'onouneed thaii 

 in the Baringo race. 



Indeed, the genei-al type of coloiution of the South Lado Gii'affe 

 is suggesti^-e of a transition from the Baringo foi-m in the direc- 

 tion of the Koi'dofan Giiuffe (G. c. antiquorttm), in which both 

 sexes ai'e coloui-ed pi'actically alike. In the absence of spotting 

 on the fronto-nasal region of the face, the South Lado Gii'atfe 

 approximates indeed to the Koi'dofan animal, as it does in the 

 small size of the spots on the legs. Not that I think thei-e is much 

 likelihood of the South Lado animal proving to be identical with 

 tlie Koi'dofan Giraffe ; the coloui- and aixangement of the spots 

 being apparently somewhat diffei-ent in the two, while there is no 

 •evidence (judging fi-om that of its near- relative, the Nubian 

 Giraffe) that the skull of the Kordofan race has either the rudi- 

 mentary occipital horns oi- the az^^gous right oi'bital hoi-n of the 

 type specimen of the pi-esent form. 



4. Barixgo Giraffe. 



GlEAFFA CAMELOPAEDALIS ROXHSCHILDI. (Plates XII. & XIII.) 



Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Lydekkei', Hutchinson's 

 Animal Life, vol. ii. p. 122 (1903). 



Hah. The Lake Baringo district and thence ©asbwai-ds to 

 Moinit Elgon, both of which localities lie less than Y" north of 

 the equator. 



A three-horned Giraffe in which the sexes, in the early adult 

 condition at least, are markedly different as regai'ds both the 

 foi'in and the coloui- of the spots, Avith the lower part of the legs 

 pin-e white and unspotted, a triangulai- white ai-ea, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the ear, the spots in adult bulls (PI. XII.) large and 

 A'ery dark-coloured, showing a, tendency to sj)lit up into stars, as 

 indicated l)v lightei- tripai-tite radiating lines in the larger ones, 

 and the light intei'spaces yellowisli fawn, forming naiTOw network- 

 lines on the body, but becoming much broader on the neck, where 

 the spots assume a more irregular and somewhat jagged contour. 

 AVjove the knees and hocks the spots are chestnut, these chest- 

 nut spots extending liighei- up on the hind than on the fore limbs. 

 Sides of face fully spotted Avith black. 



In females (PI. XIII.) the spots ai'e much moi'e iri-egulai'. jagged, 

 and star-like, reddish chestnut in colour upon a light orange- 

 fa,wn ground. The light areas ou the neck very wide, and the 

 spots on the legs veiy small, white ai-ea i-ound eai- small ; sides of 

 face sparsely spotted*. 



Five horns generally or invariably present in old bulls, owing 

 to the development of the posteiioi-, or occipital, paii'. 



* Capt. Flower has sent me the photograph of a female Girafl'e, said to have come 

 from near Kassala, marked like this specimen. The sngwestion arises that it was 

 hronsrht from further sonth. 



