GIRAFFE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Homs short, erect, truncated at the top, and terminated 
with a tuft of black hair. 
Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; the two outermost 
deeply bilobated. 
No teeth in the upper jaw. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Camelopardalis Giraffa. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 , p. 181. 
CeRVUS CAMELOPARDALIS. C. COP- 
nibus simplicibus, pedibus anticis 
longissimis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
ed. xii. p. 92. 
Horns simple : fore legs, including 
the shoulders, very long. 
Giraffe Sm. Buff. vol. 7. P- 109. pb 214. 
Penn. Hist. Quadr. v. 1. p. 65. 
pi. 11. Be iv. Quadr. p. 106. 
Shaw Gen. Zool. 2. pi. 181, 182. 
This astonishing creature forms a genus of itself, 
and is not to be equalled in height by any animal 
in the world. He so far overtops every other 
quadruped, that we are almost ready to believe 
Goldsmith, when he says “ that a man on horse- 
