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other hand, I find that de Winton's G. c. reticulata ' does not 

 appear to intergrade with the ordinary one at all, and should 

 therefore he called a species, G. reticulata, confined to Somali, the 

 Kudulf region, and Northern British East Africa. I may also add 



Text-fig. 42. 



Head of old male Five-homed Giraffe, showing the position of the inizen 

 horns. Sir H. Johnston's Collection. 



that the more skulls of Giraffes that I examine the more distinct 

 does the Western form, G. c. peralta, appear to be ; but having no 



further material than the typical skull, I can as yet add nothing to 

 my original account. 



1 In Mr. de Winton's admirable paper on Giraffes ii\ Z. S. L897, p. 273) all 

 the notes and descriptions of the " Northern Giraffe" based on Mr. Neumann's 

 Loroghi Giraffe really refer to G. reticulata, which was described later as ;t 

 snbspec.es (Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) iv. p. 211, 1899). The asserted absence of 

 intergradation in J'".a.-t Africa between the " Northern " and Southern Giraffes is 

 therefore to be understood asan absence of intergradation between <■ 

 and the ordinary form. 



