AFRICA. 
long hairs, which the male lofes at the age of 
three years ; but the female retains it to a later 
period. 
It is the fame with the coat, which, a bright 
forrel at firft, gradually becomes deeper as the 
animal grows up, and ends at length in a bay- 
brown in the female, and in a dark- brown ap- 
proaching to black in the male. A proof of 
what I advance may be feen in the cabinet of 
natural hiftory at Leyden, where there is a 
young giraffe about feven feet high, which 
was fent by governor Tulbach to profeflbr 
Allamant, who had it ftuffed with great care. 
From this difference of colour in giraffes of 
a certain age, the males may be diftinguifhed 
from the females at fome diftance. In both, 
however, the coat differs as well in the form as 
in the arrangement of the fpots ; and I muft re- 
mark, that the female when very old acquired 
the deep colour of the male. 
The female is alfo dlftinguifhable when near 
by being lefs tall, and having the knob on the 
forehead lefs prominent and confpicuous. Like 
the cow, fhe has four teats or dugs ; and, if I 
may trufl to the teftimony of the lavages, fhe 
goes twelve months with young, and has never 
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