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M.— GirafFa camelopardalis wardi. 



Giraffa aamelopardalis wardi, Lydekher, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, ivol. i, 

 p. 221, pi. XV, fig. 2, Game Animals of Africa, p. 366, 1908 ; 

 Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, vol. ii, p. 626 ; LanTcester, ibid. 

 1907, p. 122 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 1910. 



Giraffa wardi, NoacJc, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 355, 1908. 



Typical locality Northern Transvaal. 



A large dark chocolate-coloured race, with the anterior 



Pie. 45. Head and Neck of Toposa Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis 



eottom), A, and of Nobth Transvaal Giraffe [Giraffa camelo- 

 pardalis wa/rdi), B. 



horn reduced to a low irregular protuberance, the occipital 

 horns greatly developed, and the body-spots broken up into 

 irregular stars, recalling those of tippelskircM, from which 



