248 CATALOGUK OF UNGULATES 



E.— Giraffa eamelopardalis rothsehildi. 



"Five-homed Giraffe," Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol. ii, p. 474; 

 Johnston, Uganda Protectorate, vol. i, pp. 26 and 377, 1902. 



" Giraffe," Rideivood, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 151, figs. 4, 8 

 and 9 ; Lanhester, ibid. 1907, p. 110, figs. 33 and 34. 



Giraffa eamelopardalis rothsehildi, LydeJcker, Hutchinson's Animal 

 Life, vol. ii, p. 122, 1903, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 210, 

 1905, vol. i, p. 121, Game Animals of Africa, p. 358, 1908 ; 

 Powell-Cotton, Unknown Africa, pi. facing p. 194, 1904; 

 Duerden, Bee. Albany Mus. vol. ii, p. 95, 1907 ; Trouessart, 

 La Nature, vol. xxx, p. 341, 1908 ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. vol. xxvi, p. 157, fig. 2, 1909 ; Ward, Becords of Big Oame, 

 ed. 6, p. 116, 1910 ; Boosevelt, African Oame Trails, p. 487, 

 1910 ; Hollister, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 1, 

 1910; M. de Bothschild and Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 99, 1911, partim ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. 

 Madrid Mus. p. 129, 1912. 



Typical locality Giiasin-gisha Plateau, to the south-east 

 of ]Mount Elgon and west of Lake Baringo, B. E. Africa, 

 nearly 1° north of the equator ; the two areas being separated 

 hy the Elgeyo Eange. 



Colour (in male) very dark, the spots being nearly black, 

 and showing a tendency to split up into stars, as indicatedr 

 by lighter tripartite radiating lines in the larger ones ; light 

 interspaces (ground-colour), except on face, deep yellowish 

 fawn, forming a network of narrow lines on body, but 

 becoming much broader on neck, where the spots may 

 assume a more iiTegular and somewhat jagged outline ; sides 

 of face, extending posteriorly in a triangular area behind 

 ears (the backs of which are wholly white), whitish — and 

 thus sharply contrasting with the neck — and fully spotted 

 with black in subadult males, although in old males (fig. 40, A, 

 p. 239) these more or less completely disappear above a line 

 connecting the angle of the mouth with the eye; a spot 

 on legs above knees and hocks chestnut, such light spots 

 extending farther up on the hind than on the front 

 legs ; shanks white and unspotted. Skull with front horn 

 strongly developed, and a pair of occipital horns beliind the 

 main pair ; and there may be a pair of orbital horns.* 



In subadult females (if rightly associated) the spots are 

 reddish chestnut, and irregular, jagged, and somewhat star- 



* In a specimen seen by the ^¥riter in 1914. 



