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the former were referred to, but, in spite of the letter from the publisher 

 quoted on page 507, the Somali giraffe was considered inseparable from the 

 northern form. 



The Great ami Small Game of Africa was published in 1899. In the 

 latter part of the same year Mr. W. E. de Winton ' separated the Somali 

 giraffe as a distinct race of the northern species under the name of 



G. camelopardalis reticulata. Thus matters stood till 1901, when Sir Harry 

 Johnston announced in The Times that he had obtained a new five-horned 

 giraffe from the country lying east of Mount Elgon, in the north-eastern 

 portion of the Uganda Protectorate; the head and neck of one of his 

 specimens being figured in The Graphic of August 3rd in that year. In 

 describing these specimens before the Zoological Society of London on 

 November 19th, Mr. O. Thomas called attention to the fiict that the 

 1 Annals and Mamzini of Natural Himri, series 7, vol. iv. pp. 211 and 212 (1899). 



