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EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 



An investigation of these skins proves that tlie lips and the snout of the Okapi 

 are very different from those of the Giraffe. The lips of the former are not produced 

 as in the latter, nor does the hairy covering of the lips extend to the inner surf ace. The 

 black hairs of the upper lip are directed doAvnwards. The lower margin is fringed or 



Fig. 8. A Bush-buck sliot by Captain Elias Aerhenius at Rutshuru. 



bordered by a narrow band of whitish hairs, and with the same ceases the hairy covering 

 quitc abruptly so that the lower resp. inner surf ace of the upper lip is quite naked, and 

 laterally the inside is beset with strong conical papilke. At the end of the snout between 

 the nostrils there is an oblong bare spöt from which a vertical hair-less groove runs doAvn 



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Fig. 9. Front view of snout of a young Okapi sbovving upper 

 nostrils and groove between tbe latter. (Diminished). 



lip, 



to the margin of the upper lip. The hairs at both sides of this groove are directed towards 

 the same, and the fringes thus formed on both sides are continuous with the marginal 

 whitish fringc of the lip mentioned above. The accompanying figure illustratcs these 

 arrangcments and structurcs very plainly. 



