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MR. K. LYDEKKER ON THE 



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h. The lower part of the legs — especially the hind pair — more 

 or less spotted and dark-coloured. 



5. Kilimanjaro Giraffe, 

 glraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi. 



Giraffa tippelskirchi \ Matschie, SB. Ges. naturfor. Berlin, 

 Giraffa schillingsi J 1898, p. 77. 



Hah. Typically Lake Eyassi, to the south-west of the Victoria 

 Nyanza, but extending due westward to the neighbourhood of 



Text-fie-. 28. 



Tj'pe skin (young female), from Lake Eyassi, of Kilimanjaro Girafte 

 {G. tippelshirclii Matschie). 



Mount Kilimanjaro, in about lat. 3° south of the equator. Also 

 the Masai country, a little further north. Probably extending 

 southwards into Portua^uese East Africa. 



