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CAMELOPARDALIS. CAMELOPARDI. 



Generic Character. 



Cornua pelle setosa tecta, 

 apice fascicule pilorum ter- 

 minata. 



Denies Primores inferiores 

 octo, spatulati, extimo ex- 

 terne profunde bilobo. 



Horns permanent, bony, co- 

 vered with a bristly skin. 



Front-teeth in the lower jaw 

 eight; the exterior one on 

 each side deeply bilobate. 



GIRAFFE. 



Camelopardalis GirafFa. C. albida, macuUs suhquadratis fuscO' 



ferrvgineis, cornibus sestosis apice tnmcatis. 

 Whitish Camelopardi, with squarish ferruginous-brown spots, 



and bristly horns, truncated at the tip. 

 Cervus Camelopardalis. Lin. Syst. Nat. y. 92. 

 Camelopardalis GirafFa. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 181. 

 Camelopardalis. Gesn. Quadr. p. 160. Aldr. bisidc, p. 927, 

 Camelus Indicus. Jonst. Quadr. t. 40. 

 GyrafFa. Bellon. obs.p. iiS.f.p. 119. 

 GirafFa. Nieremb. Klein. Briss, Src. 



GirafFe. Biiff^. 13. p. i. and Suppl. 3. p. 320. pL 64. andSuppl, 



1*V' 34^- K 81. 

 Camelopard GirafFe. Fennant Quadr. i. p. 6^. pi. 11. 



If height alone constituted precedency among 

 quadrupeds, the GirafFe, as Mons. Vaillant, one 

 of its iatest and most accurate describers, has well 

 observed, would undoubtedly claim the first rank; 



