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' BINAR LQNNBERG, MAMMALS GOLLBCTBD IN CENTRAJl; AFBICA. 



An investigation of these skins proves that the lips and the snout of the Okapi, 

 are very different from those of the Giraffe. The Ups of the former are not produced 

 as in the latter, nor does the hairy covering of the lips extend to the inner surface. The 

 black hairs of the upper lip are directed downwards. The lower margin is fringed or 



Fig. 8. A Bush-buok shot by Captain Elias Arkhenius at Rutshuru. 



bordered by a narrow band of whitish hairs, and with the same ceases the hairy covering 

 quite abruptly so that the lower resp. inner surface of the upper lip is quite naked, and 

 laterally the inside is beset with strong conical papillae. At the end of the snout between 

 the nostrils there is an oblong bare spot from which a vertical hair-less groove runs down 



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Fig. 9. Front view of snout of a young Okapi showing upper lip, 

 nostrils and groove between the latter. (Diminished). 



to the margin of the upper lip. The hairs at both sides of this groove are directed towards 

 the same, and the fringes thus formed on both sides ar^ continuous with the marginal 

 whitish fringe of the lip mentioned above. The acconipanying figure illustrates these 

 arrangements and structures very plainly. 



