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THE CAMELEOPAllD OF NORTH AFRICA. 
Cameleopardalis antiquorum. 
^ PLATE XXI. 
Modern zoologists have considered that the nor- 
thern and southern regions of Africa possessed sepa- 
rate species of this extraordinary animal, and have 
lately appropriated to that of the north the title of “ C. 
antiquorum" as being the animal known to the an- 
cient Greeks and Romans, and to the old Egyptians, 
as proved by the appearance of the creature on the. 
sculpture of the latter, and by the histories of the 
former, which we have handed down with apparent 
authenticity. We are ignorant, however, yet how 
far the limits of each extend, but know that one or 
other of them range from the most southern extre- 
mity of the Cape to the very north ; — not very un- 
common in the more unexplored regions, but rapidly 
decreasing wherever a commencing civilization has 
begun to plant her steps. 
The present figure is that of an animal from the 
north, taken in the vicinity of Senaar and Darfour ; 
and the woodcut at the commencement of the de- 
scription is also from the northern animals described 
by Ruppel ; and as it is in this organ that the princi- 
