58 SUBKINGBOM VEETEBRATA. 



Mg. 78. mg. 79. 



-a 



Eyes of a Oirafe. 

 Fig. SO. 



Tongue of a Girafe. CamelopardaUs giraffa, Giraflfe. ^. 



a lion. The long tongue is prehensile, and so flexible as to 

 be flattened and rounded like a plate, or contracted to enter 

 a quill. In mimicry it resembles the branchless trunks among 

 which it stalks and upon whose umbrella tops it feeds. * 



Bovidse. — The Ox family comprises ruminants having 

 horns and cloven feet. It may be tabulated according to the 

 structure of the horns. 



* *'Intliecaee of the Giraffe, which ie invariably met amon^ venerable forests, 

 where innumerable blasted and weatber-beateii trunks occur, I have repeatedly been 

 in doubt as to its presence, until I had recourse to my spy-glass ; and on referring 

 the case to my savage attendants I have known even their optics to fail, at one time 

 mistaking these dilapidated trunks for camelopards, and again confounding real 

 camelopards with these aged veterans of the forest."— Cumming's Adventures. 



