SUPPLEMENT TO 

 GREAT AND SMALL GAME OF AFRICA 



THE GIRAFFE TRIBE 



Family — Giraffid^e. Genus — Giraffa. 



Not only has the discovery of the okapi added a most interesting 

 animal to the list of African great game, but it has rendered necessary a 

 modification of the characters of the giraffe family as given in the Great 

 and Small Game of Africa. Moreover, important contributions have been 

 made to our knowledge of the giraffes themselves since the publication of 

 that work ; and it has therefore been considered advisable to issue the 

 present supplement to the volume in question. 



Both the giraffe and the okapi are long-legged and long-necked 

 ruminants, standing considerably higher at the withers than at the rump, 

 with long slender heads, and tapering short-haired tails. The skull is 

 characterised by the general lightness of the bones, which are more or less 

 swollen in the region of the forehead, and also by the great length and 

 slenderness of the lower jaw, in which the front teeth are separated by 

 a very long interval from those of the cheek series, or grinders. The 

 latter are short-crowned and coated with a characteristically rugose enamel ; 

 while the four pairs of front teeth in the lower jaw, which have likewise a 

 similar rugose enamel, are much expanded and show certain structural 



