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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
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sexes, I was curious to put them on the scales : taking the dried skulls of 
two wild-killed Abyssinian animals, I found that of the male weighed 19 
lb. 8 oz., while that of the female only weighed 7 lb. 6 oz. The bones of 
the skull of the female are very smooth and thin ; the whole of the upper 
Young Female Giraffe of the Northern Species 
(Giraffa Camelopardalis). 
(From a Photograph of a Mounted Head.) 
side of the skull of the male is covered with a rough superficial osseous 
growth, which has its centre in the three horns, gradually enveloping the 
whole of the upper parts of the skull, forming lumps on the supraoccipital 
and supraorbital bones, and covering the face to the end of the nasals and 
the cheeks, so that all the true bones are completely hidden. 
Mr. Arthur H. Neumann—to whom I am much indebted for loan of 
