1901.] 



riYE-HORNED GIRAFFE FROM MOUNO? ELGOJ^". 



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homologies stress must necessarily be laid on the particular bones 

 associated with the horns. 



These remarks of course apply primarily to the fore and main 

 horns, of which the os cornu is known. Whether an}'' such 

 separate bone is contained in the mizen horns we are as yet 

 unable to state. 



Text-%. 47. 



Bramatkerium perimejixe. Diagrammatie side view of the skull, showing 

 the position of the horns. 



But although no similar horns to the mizen pair can be found 

 in any living non-Giraffine animal, among the fossil members of 

 the group there appear to me to be undeniable homologues, or 

 rather representatives of them. For in Bramathermm^as is shown 

 in text-figs. 47 & 48) the posterior horns are in so precisely similar 

 a position that it seems incredible that they should not directly 

 correspond to them, all the more that both animals are admittedly 

 members of the same family. The admission of such a corre- 

 spondence would agree with and confirm the more recent views 

 held about the relationships of the anterior and posterior horns of 

 Giraffa, Bramaiherium, and Sivatherium. For whereas at one 



