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Great and Small Game of Africa 



of a beast of a rich chestnut — varying from light to very dark, according 

 to age and sex — covered with a network of beautifully symmetrical white 

 lines forming a sharply-defined polygonal pattern. 



The horns of this latter variety are larger than those of the 

 southern kind ; and a third, and somewhat smaller horn (but exactly 

 similar in shape, covering, and appearance) is present in the centre of the 

 forehead of the male skull which I presented to the Natural History 



Fig. +3.— Giraffes ( 



Photographed by Lord Delam 



Museum, and also in the Abyssinian specimen that has been there many 

 years. It would be rash to assert that this appendage is an invariable 

 characteristic of the form, without a more extensive experience ; and as the 

 one above alluded to is the only specimen I have brought home, I should 

 hesitate to say positively that every specimen I have killed had it ; but 

 I have certainly never seen anything of the kind in any southern giraffe, 

 nor have I met any one who has. And although I have heard that it has 



