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this race (apart from the absence of a frontal horn) differs by 

 the dark chocolate-brown — instead of chestnut — body-spots, 

 the stellate form of which serves to distinguish vjardi from 

 capcnsis ; spots on sides of face restricted to region below 

 and behind eyes ; shanks spotted. 



3. 1 1. 18. 1. Head and neck, mounted (fig. 45, B), body- 

 skin (with limbs), and skull. Northern Transvaal. Type. 

 Body-skin presented hy the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 head hy J. Rowland, Ward, Esq., 1903. 



N.—Giraffa camelopardalis capensis. 



Camelopardalis australis, Swainson, Geogr. and Classif. Anim. p. 95, 



1835 ; A. Smith, Bep. Exped. Inter. Africa, p. 40, 1836 ; nomen 



nudum. 

 Camelopardalis capensis, E. Geoffroy (?), teste Gi-ay ; Ogilhy, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 134, nom. nudum ; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. 



Regne Anim. p. 168, 1842, ex Levaillant, Voyage Inter. Afrique, 



pis. viii and ix, 1790. 

 Girafifa australis, Bhoads, Proc. Ac. Sci. Pliilad. 1896, p. 514 ; 



Mailer, Zool. Garten, vol. xxx%di, p. 289, 1896. 

 Giraffa capensis, de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 277 ; LydeJcker, 



Gi-eat and Small Game of Africa, p. 488, 1899 ; Bryden, ibid. 



p. 489, 1899; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol. ii, p. 475; 



Benshaw, Nat. Hist. Essays, p. 101, 1904 ; NoacJc, Zool. Ann. 



vol. xxxiii, p. 354, 1908. 

 Giraffa camelopardalis capensis. Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, 



p. 77 ; LydekJcer, ibid. 1904, vol. i, p. 222, pi. :^vi, vol. ii, p. 341, 



Game Animals of Africa, p. 366, 1908 ; Trouessart, La Nature, 



vol. XXX, p. 341, 1908 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 



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



ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 10, 1911. 



Typical locality South Africa, north of the Orange Eiver.* 

 Colour-pattern of the " blotched type," that is to say, 

 large, subquadrangular, evenly bordered blotches or spots, 

 \vhich in old males are chocolate-brown or blackish, on a 

 tawny ground ; shanks deep tawny and fully spotted down 

 to the hoofs ; anterior horn reduced to a low boss, and 

 occipital horns wanting. In immature specimens from the 



* The older writers (cf. Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, 

 p. 187) state that giraffes occur in the extreme south of Cape Colony ; 

 but Bryden, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 501, considers it 

 doubtful whether they were ever found south of the Orange Eiver, 

 although there is an old Hottentot tradition to the effect that a 

 herd formerly existed in the Qneenstown district of Cape Colony. 



