PLATE XI. 
CAMELOPARDALIS GIRAFFA.—THE CAMELOPARD OR GIRAFFE. 
Kameel of the Cape Colonists. Naip of the Hottentots. Intootla of the Bechuana and Matabili. 
Generic CHARACTER.—In stature the tallest of Mammiferous animals. Adult male, twelve feet high at the shoulder, 
and eighteen at the crown of the head. Twenty feet in extreme length. Legs slender, and very long. Feet terminating in a 
divided hoof, shaped like a parallelogram, with rounded heel and pointed toe. No succentorial hoofs. Body short. Withers very 
elevated, a scanty upright rufous mane extending along the whole neck. Back very oblique. Tail thirty-four inches long, 
terminating in a tuft of bristly black hair about the same length, which reaches to the hocks. Head light and tapering, 
thirty-four inches long; provided with osseous peduncles (common to both sexes), eight inches long, covered with a hairy skin, 
and terminating in a pencilled tuft of black hair. A tuberculum on the chaffron. No muzzle. Upper lip entire; hairy and’ 
pointed. Eyes large and melting, with long lashes. No lachrymary sinus. Ears pure white, and ample. Callosities on the 
breast and knees. Tongue very long, pointed, and flexible. General colour, deep sienna, with large angular ferruginous spots, 
variously disposed over the whole; each spot darker in the centre. Belly and cheeks white, with dark blotches. 
Female, sixteen or seventeen feet in height at the crown, of a dirty white colour, with pale ferruginous spots as in 
the male. An udder with four teats. Gregarious in small troops. Inhabits the great wooded plains of the interior. 
