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animal inconspicuous among bushes, as is beautifully shown in the figure 

 on page 493 of the text. The blotched giraffe, on the other hand, 

 apparently inhabits more open country. 



The typical specimen of the Somali giraffe was obtained by Mr. A. 

 Neumann a little eastward of the Loroghi Mountains, while Lord 

 Delamere's examples were killed in the Boran Galla country, the Rendili 

 district to the north of Gwaro Nyiro, and the neighbourhood of the 

 General Mathews Chain. 



THE OKAPI 



Genus — Ocapia 



As a genus the okapi (Ocup/'a johnstoni) is readily distinguished from 

 the giraffes by its much shorter neck and limbs, its totally different type of 

 coloration, and the absence of a mane on the neck, and (so far as is known) 

 of horns on the head. It is in all respects a more primitive, or generalised 

 type of animal than the giraffes, which it serves to connect with a number 

 of extinct ruminants whose remains have been familiar to naturalists for 

 years. In some of these, like the European Samotherium and the gigantic 

 Indian Sroatherium, the males carried horns, but in the Grecian He/lado- 

 therium both sexes may have been hornless. The giraffe-like affinities of 

 the okapi are fully established by the nature of its skull and teeth. 



The one known skin of the okapi indicates an animal something over 

 five feet high at the shoulder, but as this belonged to an immature in- 

 dividual, full-grown males must apparently be somewhat taller. The 

 ears are much larger in proportion to the size of the head than in the 

 giraffes ; the head itself having a remarkably convex profile, and a narrow, 

 rounded, somewhat downwardly-bent muzzle. The eyes are relatively 

 smaller than in a giraffe, and the only traces of horns are small bumps in 



