244 c:atalogue of ungulates 



1. 5. 14. 1. Skull, female. White Nile. 



Presented hj Major H. N. Dunn, 1901. 



2. 11. 12. 1. Skull, two pieces of body-skin, tail, and 

 fore-legs, with hoofs, female. Kodok (Fashoda), White. 



Presented hy Prince Henri of Liechtenstein, 1902. 



2. 11. 13. 1. Piece of skin. Mougalla, Southern Sudan; 



collected by A. L. Butler, Esq. Purchased, 1902. 



2. 11. 13. 2. Skull. Eastern Sudan; same collector. 



Same history. 



3. 8. 13. 1. Head and neck, mounted. Eastern Sudan. 



Presented hy the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1903. 



B. — Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum. 



(?) Camelopardalis sennaarensis, E. Geoffroy, quoted by Gray. 



Camelopardalis antiquorum, Swainson, Geogr. and Classif. Anim. 

 p. 95, 1835, ex Cretzsohmar ; Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. 

 vol. iii, p. 187, pi. xxi, 1835. 



(?) Camelopardalis giraffa, var. sethiopica, Smidevall, K. Svenska Vet.- 

 Ah. Handl. 1844, p. 174, 1846 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 p. 136. 



Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum, Lydeltlter, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, 

 vol. i, p. 205, pi. xi. Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 236, 

 1908 ; Lanhester, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 120, figs. 42 and 43 ; 

 Mitchell, ibid. 1908, p. 135 ; Trotiessart, La Nature, vol. xxx, 

 p. 341, 1908; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 1910. 



Typical locality !Kordofan. 



Nearly allied to the last, but the spots on the upper part 

 of the fore-limbs — ^just above the line of the abdomen — and 

 also those on the corresponding portion of the thighs, broken 

 up into a number of very small and irregular ones, which 

 contrast strongly with the larger ones above ; similar spots 

 also occurring on the under-parts and inner sides of the 

 limbs, which are nearly white in the typical race. In both 

 forms the colour-pattern of the females differs only in details 

 from that of the males. 



The specimen figured by Jardine, which is stated to 

 have come from the district between Sennar and Dafur 

 (i.e. practically Kordofan), may be taken as the type, since 

 Cretzschmar's description, on which Swainson's name is 

 based, is insufficient. That the colour-pattern in Jaixline's 



