1901.] 



flYL-HORNED GIRAFFE FROM MOTTHT ELGON. 



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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 any such 

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

 unable to state. 



Text-fig. 47. 





Bramatherium /xri^ie. immatic Bide view of (lie skull, abowing 



the position of the horns. 



But although m> similar horns to the mizen pair can be found 



in any living i -Giraffine animal, among the Eoesil memhera ol 



the group there appear i e to be undeniable bomologuec 



rather representatives of them. For in Bramatherium (as is shown 

 in text-figs. 17 4 18) the posterior horns are in bo precisely Bimilar 

 a position thai il Beems incredible tbal they should not directly 

 correspond to them, all the more thai 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 

 In ]<1 aboul the relationships of the anterior and posterior horns of 

 Giraffe, Bramatherium, and Sivatherium. Pot whereas at one 



