SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Cervus Moschatus, Blainv. ? Musk-deer of Nepaul, Sir 

 William Ouseley. Orient. Collections. 

 Habitat. Nepaul. 



Tribe III. — Giraffidce. 



Frontal processes prolonged in the shape of horns, covered 

 with hairy skin, which is continued from the scalp, and 

 terminated by long hard bristles, in both sexes. 



Genus I. — Camelopardalis, Lin. 



Incisors % ; canines ^:J| ; molars ,^:| = 32. Head long pro- 

 longed with tuberculum on the chaffron ; osseous peduncles 

 covered with skin, and hairy, terminated by a tuft of 

 bristles ; no muzzle ; upper-lip entire ; no lachrymary 

 sinus; ears long; tongue rough; eyes large, soft, pupil 

 elongated ; neck very long ; withers much elevated ; back 

 oblique ; legs slender ; no succentorial hoofs ; callosity on 

 the breast ; tail to ths hough ; female four teats. 



807. 1. Camelopardalis Giraffa (the GirafFa.) In stature 

 the tallest of mammiferous animals ; coat of a dirty-white, 

 marked with dark brown, or ferruginous spots or blotches, 

 somewhat tending to symmetrical forms; large and angular 

 in their shapes; short mane on neck and withers, in alter- 

 nate parts of black and white ; tail terminated by a tuft of 

 dark and long hair. 



Camelopardalis, Pliny, Oppian. Heliodorus, Gesner. 

 Anabula, Seraph. Alb the Great ; Gyraffa, quam Zurnapa, 

 GraBci et Latini Camclopardalus Nominant, Brllon. 

 Prosp. Albin. Camelopardalus, Lin. Girafra, Camelus 

 Indicus, Johnst. Giraffa Camelopardalis, Briss. Camelo- 

 pardalis Giraffa, Auctor. Giraffe, Buff. Giraffa, Shaw. 

 Zuraphate, Arabic. Seraphah, Persian. Jirataka Lin 

 Amharie. Zomer, Hebrew. Deba, Chaldaic, Aithiopic. 

 Nabis, Plim/. Naip of the Hottentots. Iinpatoo, Bushman. 



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