THE GIRAFFE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns Ihort, upright, truncated. 

 The neck and lhoulders of an extraordinary length. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, the two outermoft bilobated. 

 No cutting teeth in the upper jaw. 



Synonims. 

 Cervus Camelopardalis, Linn, Syjt, 92. 

 Tragus Giraffa, Klein Quad, 22. 

 Camelopardalis, Plin, lib. viii. c. 18. 

 Camelopard, Pennant Synn, Quad, 12. 



La Giraffe, que les Arabes noment Zurnapa, Belon Obs. 

 118. Gefner Quad, 160. de Bujfon, xiii. l. 



THIS moll extraordinary creature is fo very different in its make from 

 any other known quadruped, that it would be difficult to form an adequate 

 idea of it, without feeing either the animal or its portrait; the unufual length 

 of its neck and fore legs gives it a moll lingular appearance. The head is 

 about two feet long, and fomewhat refembles that of a Stag ; it is adorned 

 by two fubllances, which have the appearance of horns, though in facl: the 

 animal never ufes them as fuch, they being only two prominences perpendicular 

 and parallel to each other, ariling from the Ikull between the ears, and 

 extending to the height of eight or ten inches: thefe prominences are covered 

 all over with Ihort hair, and appear as if cut off at the top, being terminated 

 by a convexity feveral lines wide, adorned with a rim of Itraight, briftly hair. 



