224 MR. R. LYDEKKER OIv' THE [Feb. 2, 



The aborted frontal liorn in the Transvaal .skull (text-fig. 35, 

 p. 223) forms an iii-egulai- nodular boss, measurmg 6 inches in 

 antero-posterior length. In fiont ai-e two much smaller bosses 

 placed one before the other- in the median line. So far as I have 

 seen, no other Gii'affe possesses such a large frontal l)oss. 



Of course other skulls are requii-ed in order to ascei-tfiin whether 

 the large size of the posterior hoi-ns and of the fi-ontal boss is 

 constant, and not due to age. I think, however, it will turn out 

 it is so ; for although the present skull, as shown by the teeth, 

 belonged to a somewhat older individual than the afoi-esaid skull 

 of the Baringo race, the difference in this respect is compai-atively 

 slight, and quite insufficient to account for the wide diversity in 

 the size of the posterior- hoi-ns. 



As already mentioned, the distinctive characteiistics of the 

 ISTorth Transvanl Giraffe wei-e first revealed b}' the body-skin 

 presented to the Bi-itish Museum by Mr. Rothschild, who sub- 

 sequently gave to that Museum a cast of the skull of the same 

 individual. Still later. Mr. Rowland Ward presented the Museum 

 with the mounted head and neck of this same bull, which afforded 

 additional material to demonsti-ate the distinctness of the pi-esent 

 race. I ha^'e accordingly much pleasure in naming the Xorth 

 Ti-ansvaal Gii-affe aftei' Mi-. Ward ; its title thus being Lriraffa 

 Gcomelopardcdis loardi. I have especial pleasure in doing this, 

 since, in a letter to the ' Field,' Mr. Ward was the first to point 

 out the distinctness of the Somali Gii-afie. 



The general colour and arrangement of the spots on the head 

 and neck are much the same as on the body. Compared with the 

 Cape Gii-affe the spots are much more iri-egularly foi-med and 

 star-like, there is more white in the neighboui-hood of the ear, 

 and the occipital hoi-ns, each of Avhich is capped by a black patch, 

 are very lai-ge, instead of inconspicuous. 



In connection with this race, I may i-efei- to a piece of girafle- 

 skin sent home by Sir Alfred Sharpe from the Loaiigo Rivei-, in 

 Northern Rhodesia, westward of Lake Nyasa, which was exhi- 

 bited before the Society by Di-. Sclater* in 1899, and identified 

 provisionally with G. c. cwpensis. Not having seen the .specimen, 

 I cannot attempt to determine the form to which it j^ertained, 

 although I think it pi'actically certain that the true Cape Girafte 

 does not range so far noi-th. 



9. Cape Giraffe. 



GiRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS OAPEXSIS. (Plate XYI.) 



Camelopardalis capensis Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Reg. Anini. 

 p. 168 (1842). 



Girajfh australis Rhoads, Pr. Ac. Pliilad. 1896, p. 518. 



Hah. Cape Colony and some of the adjacent districts. Typical 

 southei-n form pi-oba1)]y extinct. 



* P. Z. S. 1899. p. 985. 



