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CHAP. 
difficulties of transport, and even it was no slight addition to 
our impedimenta. However, when anything proves of value 
one is repaid for the trouble involved in bringing it to the 
coast; and this was found to be of some interest, as illustrating 
points of distinction between the northern and southern species. 
By kind permission I am enabled to reproduce the engraving 
of this head, from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 
London , and quote from Mr. W. E. de Winton’s Remarks on 
the subject. 
EXTRACTS FROM REMARKS ON THE EXISTING 
FORMS OF GIRAFFE 
By W. E. de Winton, F.Z.S. 
From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 
There seems to be some doubt among naturalists in regard to the 
specific relations of the Giraffes of Nubia and the adjacent countries to 
those of Africa south of the Equator; the almost total absence of wild- 
killed specimens of the northern form during the last half-century, until 
within the last year or two, is no doubt the reason for the nomenclature 
of the two species being left in a very unsettled state. 
The exhibition of the skin of a Somaliland animal by Mr. Oldfield 
Thomas, on behalf of Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co., at a meeting of the 
Society on 20th February 1894, made me look into the literature on the 
subject. Since then the British Museum has been fortunate in augmenting 
the older material by heads of both species received from the actual 
collectors—Mr. H. A. Bryden having presented a head of the southern 
form brought home by Khama, killed in the North Kalahari ; and Mr. 
Arthur H. Neumann a head of the northern form, killed a little to the 
east of the Lorogi Mountains and north of the Gwaso Nyiro (about i° N. 
lat.) ; besides which, others have been acquired by purchase. 
“Northern Form,” Thomas, P.Z.S . 1894, p. 135; Matschie, Saug 
Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 103 (1895). 
The ground-colour varies from white to fawn ; the dark polygonal 
markings vary from orange-red to red-chocolate, the edges being even and 
sharply defined; the spaces between the dark patches are generally 
narrower, and always far more clearly defined in aged animals than in 
those of a similar age in the southern species. The legs below the knees 
and hocks are white. The males have a third horn in the centre of the 
