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posterior pair of horns first noticed by Sir Harry Johnston occurred in all 

 old male giraffes from the north and north-east of Africa. It was also 

 stated these giraffes appeared identical with the true G. camelopardalis, and 

 that the latter seemed to pass into the southern giraffe, although a complete 

 gradation had not yet been observed. On the other hand, the Somali 

 giraffe was regarded as a perfectly distinct species. This view seems to the 

 writer the most reasonable one, even if a complete gradation does not 

 occur, and he thinks it advisable to adopt the popular name of blotched 

 giraffe for Giraffa camelopardalis. In this wide sense there will be at least 

 two distinct races of the species, viz. — 



a. Northern blotched giraffe (G. camelopardalis typica). 

 />. Southern „ „ („ „ capensis). 



These races may be partly connected by one form from Lake Iassa, 

 German East Africa, described as G. tippelskirchi, and a second from Kilima 

 Njaro named G. sc/iillingsi, although both these appear more nearly allied 

 to the southern than to the northern form. Whether it is worth while to 

 regard either of them as races by themselves may for the present be left 

 an open question. 



As its name implies, the blotched giraffe is characterised by the colora- 

 tion taking the form of large brown blotches (the centres of which may be 

 nearly black in old bulls) on a fawn ground ; the outer surface of the ears 

 of the adult being white or whitish, and the legs below the knees and 

 hocks fawn-coloured. In the young the ears are drab or fawn. 



In the typical northern or Nubian race, as exemplified by Sir Harry 

 Johnston's specimens (one of which is mounted in the Natural History 

 Museum), the males show five distinct horns, the first of which forms a 

 prominent compressed boss, and have the sides of the face fully spotted. 



In the southern or Cape race, on the other hand (Plate XIV. Fig. 3), 

 both the anterior horn and the small posterior horns are smaller, and the 



