236 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



I. Genus GIRAFFA. 



Giraffa, Zimmermann, Oeogr. Gesc-hichte, vol. ii, p. 125, 1780; Storr, 

 Prodromus Meth. Mamm. p. 41, 1780 ; Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1891, p. 315; W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, 

 p. 259, 1900 ; Lankester, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. xiv, p. 303, 1902 ; 

 Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 936. 



Camelopardalis, Omelin, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 181, 1788 ; 

 Biitimeyer, Ahh. achweiz. pal. Ges. vol. iv, p. 27, 1877. 



Orasius, OJcen, Lehrbuch Naturgeschichte, vol. iii, pt. 2, p. 744, 1816 ; 

 Wagner, Sitzber. K. Bayer. Ah. Wiss. vol. ii, p. 78, 1861. 



The typical genus. 



Size very large, neck nnd limbs greatly elongated, so 

 that the height to the crown of the head may reach 17 or 

 18 feet ; males larger than females ; a pair of fronto-parietal 

 horns, surmounted by tufts of hair, in both sexes, and 

 typically, an unpaired anterior horn ; ears narrow ; skull 

 relatively deep, without lachrymal depressions, but with 

 small lachrymal vacuities, which become more or less nearly 

 obliterated in old individuals ; no glands on face, in groin, 

 or between hoofs ; four teats ; coloration either a network of 

 white or whitish lines on a rufous, tawny, or dark brown 

 ground, or brown blotches on a fawn ground, the one type 

 of pattern gradually passing into the other ; tail medium, 

 tufted. 



Distribution, at the present day, the greater part of 

 Ethiopian Africa, exclusive of the equatorial forest region 

 and the country south of the Orange Eiver. In the Lower 

 Pliocene Greece, Samos, Bessarabia, Persia, northern India, 

 and China. 



I. GIEAFFA EETICULATA. 



Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata, de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 211, 1899 ; Trouessart, La Nature, vol. xxx, 

 p. .340, 1908. 



Giraffa reticulata, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol. i, p. 476 ; 

 Major, ibid. 1902, vol. ii, p. 78 ; Renshaiv, Nat. Hist. Essays, 

 p. 101, 1904 ; Lydekher, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 204, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 874, 1908, Suppl. p. 5, 1902; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 117, 1910 ; M. de Rothschild and 

 Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 1, pi. ii, fig. 2, 

 1911. 



