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ragged and star-like form characteristic of that race. As to the 

 possibility of the Congo Giraffe being identical with the imper- 

 fectly-known 6^. camelopardalis percdta of Nigeria, it may be 

 remarked that the latter takes its name from the great length of 

 the cannon-bones of the legs, which indicate a very tall animal. 

 The Congo specimen, on the other hand, although apjDarently 

 adult, is a comparatively small animal. 



B. Frontal horn rudvmentary ; limbs viore or less fully 

 spotted to the hoofs. 



7. Angola Giraffe. 



GiRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS ANGOLENSIS. (Plate XI Y.) 



Giraff'a camelopardalis angolensis Lydekker, Hutchinson's 

 Animal Life, vol. ii. p. 121 (1903). 



Hah. Angola. 



Typified by a mounted male in Mr. Rothschild's Museum, at 

 Tring, from the Cunene River, 150 miles south-west of Humbe. 



Markings more of the" network type than in G. c. capensis. 

 Spots on face confined to an area lying below a longitudinal line 

 running beneath the eye to the angle of the mouth. A small and 

 indistinct triangular area below the ear in which the ground- 

 colour is white. Body-spots large, with ill-defined margins, and 

 brown in colour ; a sudden break into smaller spots about the 

 middle of the thigh. Ground-colour white or whitisli ; legs 

 fully spotted to the hoofs, with the ground-colour of their lower 

 portion tawny. Frontal horn represented by a low tuberosity or 

 swelling. 



This race difiers from the Cape form, as represented bj- the old 

 bull formerly exhibited in the British Museum, by the lighter 

 ground-colour, the more net-like type of coloration, the browner 

 colour of the spots, and the gi'eater degree to which the latter 

 extend on to the sides of the face. 



Whether posterior horns were developed, I have not been able 

 to ascertain.. 



8. Northern Transvaal Giraffe. 



GiRAFFA camelopardalis wardi, subsp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Hah. Northern Transvaal. 



Typified by the body-skin of an adult bull presented by 

 Mr. Rothschild to the British Museum, together with the skull 

 and mounted head and neck of the same individual pi'esented by 

 Mr. Rowland Ward. ^ 



A large and dark chocolate-coloured Gii'afle, with the frontal 

 horn in old bulls represented by a low irregular boss,' the posterior, 

 or occipital, horns enormously developed, and the body-spots 

 broken up into irregular stars, /i-ecalling those of G. c. tippelskirchi, 

 from which, together with G. schillingsi, the present form (apart 

 from the absence of a frontal horn) is broadly distinguished by 

 the dark chocolate- brown, instead of chestnut, colour of the body- 



