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GIRAFFE TRIBE, &C. 
GIRAFFE TRIBE. 
In this tribe, of which but a single species has 
been hitherto discovered, the horns are simple, 
covered with skin, blunt at the ends, and each ter- 
minated by a tuft of black hair. In the lower 
jaw there are eight broad and thin front teeth, the 
outermost of which on each side are deeply di- 
vided into two lobes. 
This animal, although nearly allied both to the 
deer and antelope tripes, is so remarkable in its 
structure, as, in an artificial system at least, to re- 
quire a distinct classification. 
Giraffe, 
This extremely singular quadruped is never 
met with in a wild state but in the interior parts of 
Africa, and even there it has been but seldom seen 
by European travellers. Its head bears a consi- 
derable resemblance to that of the horse, but is fur- 
nished with erect horns, covered with a hairy skin, 
about six inches long ; these are blunt, as though 
cut off at the ends, and each tufted with a brush 
of coarse black hairs. The neck is very long, 
thin, and erect, and has on the ridge a short erect 
mane, which extends along the back nearly to the 
origin of the tail. The shoulders are very deep, 
which has given rise to the vulgar error that the 
fore legs are longer than the hinder ones, a cir- 
cumstance that proves on examination to be by 
no means true. When they stand with their head 
and neck perfectly erect, many of the giraffes 
measure sixteen or eighteen feet, from the hoof to 
the end of the horns. In their native wilds their 
