1904.] 



SUBSPECIES OF GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS. 



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The type of this race is the mounted adult bull in the British 

 Museum, shot by Major Powell- Cotton on the Quashengeshu 

 (pronounced Washengeshu) Plateau to the ©a** of Lake Baringo, \^:e j,t, 

 from which it is separated by a forest-clad mountain-range. / 



The mounted head and neck (as well as the skull) of the " five- 

 horned" bull Giraffe in the British Museum (text-fig. 26), brought 

 from Mount Elgon by Sii- H. Johnston and already alluded to. 



Text-fia-. 26. 



Head and neck of old l)ull Baring-o Giraffe, sliowinp,- the five horns. 

 (From the ' Guide to Mammalia in British Museum.') 



doubtless belongs to this form. It is true that the whole colour 

 is mvich darker, the white area below the ear smaller and less 

 distinct, and the spotting on the face much less developed ; but 

 in another specimen from the same locality, figured by Sir H. 

 Johnston in ' The Uganda Protectorate' and herewith reproduced 

 (text- fig. 27, p. 213), these features are much the same as in the 



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