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GIRAFFJD^. 
Following the Muntjaks, have been placed those 
extraordinary animals the Giraffes, from the circum- 
stance that they possess tlie two bony elongations 
from the skull, covered with hair, and which, in the 
skeleton, appear like the bony core of horns, but 
which in the living animal are only surmounted witli 
some stiff bristly hairs, standing erect. 
