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the skin. Compared with that of a giraffe, which is remarkably vaulted 



and swollen above the eyes, the skull of the okapi is flat and depressed. 



The tapering smooth tail does not reach within some distance of the hocks. 



Externally, perhaps, the most remarkable feature about the okapi is its 



The Immature Okapi in the Nat 



coloration, which is so strange and bizarre as to engender the belief in the 

 minds of a large number of non-scientific persons that the creature must be 

 a hybrid, with a zebra for one of its parents. The prevailing colour, 

 which includes part of the forehead, ears, neck, and the whole of the body 

 save a portion of the hind-quarters, is a purplish brown. The sides of the 



