GIRAFFID^ 251 



G. — Giraffa camelopardalis, subsp. 



Giraffa tippelskirohi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, 



p. 77, partim. 

 Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi, LydeHrr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, 



vol. i, p. 214, Game Animals of Africa, p. 363, 1908, partim. 



Inhabits the district between the Victoria Nyanza and 

 Nairobi, British East Africa, and Masailand. 



Nearly allied to the next race, but the shanks of adult 

 males wholly white ; those of females partially spotted. 



Eepresented by the mounted skin of a female from 

 Masailand in the museum at Stuttgart, referred by Matschie 

 to tippelskircJii, and by a male from a spot about forty 

 miles east of the Victoria Nyanza, described and figured 

 on page 363 of " Game Animals of Africa." 



No specimen in collection. 



H.— Giraflfa camelopardalis tippelskirchi. 



Giraffa tippelskirohi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, 

 p. 77 ; Noach, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 356, 1908. 



Giraffa schillingsi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1898, p. 77 ; 

 Noach, Zool., Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 356, 1908. 



Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi, LydeJclcer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 vol. i, p. 214, 1905, vol. i, p. 119, pi. xi, Gaine Animals of Africa, 

 p. 361, 1908; Trouessart, La Nature, vol. xxx, p. 341, 1908; 

 Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxvi, p. 159, fig. 2, 1909 ; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 1910 ; Roosevelt, 

 African Game Trails, p. 487, 1910 ; M. de Bothschild and 

 Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 108, 1911. 



Giraffa camelopardalis schillingsi, M. de Bothschild and Neuville, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 109, 1911. 



Giraffa camelopardalis rothsohildi, M. de Bothschild and Neuville, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. iii, pi. ii, fig. 1, 1911, nee 

 Lydehlcer. 



Typical locality Lake Eyasi, German East Africa (lat. 

 3° S., long. 33 E.), to the south-east of the Victoria Nyanza, 

 whence the range extends eastwards to Kilimanjaro, and 

 probably southwards into Portuguese East Africa. 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



Spots (in both sexes) lighter coloured than in males of 

 rothschildi, very irregular and jagged in outline, and often 

 displaying a distinctly stellate form ; shanks typically olive- 



