RELATIONS OF THE OCAPI 
specimens, as Khartoum was the centre of the animal 
trade in the part of Africa whence giraffes were generally 
acquired. Now there are prospects of a further con- 
tinuation of the giraffe stock. 
The giraffe has an aspect which is so familiar as to 
need no special description. But a few points must be 
referred to as marking its rather isolated position in the 
Ungulate series. There is in the first place no manner 
of doubt that it belongs to the deer-antelope section, 
the Artiodactyla, as evinced by its paired hoofs and by. 
its complex ruminating stomach. The horns, however, 
are of a different kind to those of other Artiodactyles, 
except the newly discovered ocapi, which is of course 
a short necked giraffe, to speak crudely. The horns 
are in all as many as five, of which one is median and 
unpaired. The others are paired and as a rule only 
one pair is very distinct. These horns are bony pro- 
minences in the adult animal which are covered with 
quite unaltered skin. They are not shed. 
The lengthy neck is interesting as illustrating the 
permanence of type in animal structure. It might 
be supposed that the neck of the giraffe and that of 
the hippopotamus, to take two of the greatest con- 
trasts in neck that occur among mammals, were 
lengthened or shortened by the omission or addition 
of vertebre.. but nothing or the “sort ioceurss) pie 
giraffe’s long neck is produced by a pulling out of each 
individual vertebra while the same are shortened in . 
the hippopotamus. In both beasts, as in nearly all 
mammals, there are but seven of these neck bones. 
Its spots and length of neck are said to advantage the 
giraffe greatly in the “struggle for existence.’ The 
spots, at first sight appearing to render it particularly 
obvious to any marauding lion or leopard, are said 
by those who have come into view of the giraffe in its 
own forests, to absolutely aid in hiding it. The spots, 
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