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Show 276 MR. W. E. DE WINTON ON THE [Feb. 1 6, he could have overlooked the fact that the locality for the type species was given as Sennaar, and that the name applied primarily to the Northern form. Thus the names have been accepted until quite lately, and though I have been well aware that they could not stand as they were, still I have put off publishing any remarks on this animal, hoping that it would be m y good fortune to come across a specimen in some collection which might some day be entrusted to me for working out; but the necessity for the present communication is shown by the receipt of Mr. S. Bhoads's paper (Proc. Acad. Philad. 1896, p. 518), on the mammals collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith during his recent expedition to Lake Budolf, in which a Giraffe is included. Mr. Bhoads seems to have read the short notice of Mr. Thomas's remarks (P.Z.S. 1894, p. 135), and then, after having looked up Linnasus's description and found that ^Ethiopia was the locality given for tbe typical specimen, without reference to any of the authors above quoted, to have jumped to the conclusion that the Southern form must require a new name, and so proposed that.of Giraffa australis. I have, however, shown that this name was not needed and that it will thus fall as a synonym. Mr. Thomas's description, having been based on the large male of the Cape form set up in the British Museum (collected by Mr. Burke for Lord Derby, by whom it was presented to the National Collection), designated the type of Mr. Bhoads's G. australis, in founding which the description was quoted-a quotation which, like Lesson's quotation of Levailiant's figures, alone saves the name from being a nomen nudum. I will now give a short description of the two forms and point out as far as can be ascertained the distribution of each : it will be noticed that the range of the two species is entirely confined to the " Steppe Country" of Sir Harry Johnston's map of Sportsman's Africa. I do not admit MungoTark's brown species without spots, of the Western Sudan, or the equally mythical " white-spotted slender form 23 feet high" of Farini, reported from Lake Ngami; for thoroughly misleading facts on natural history, I think the latter writer is hard to beat. GIRAFFA, Briss. Giraffa, Briss. Begnum Animale, Quadr. et Cetac. p. 37 Camelopardalls, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181 (1788). THE NUBIAN OR THREE-HORNED GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS (Linn.). (Figs. 1, 2, p. 280.) Cervus camelopardalls, Linn. Syst. Nat. (10) i. p. 66 (1758); Linn. Syst. Nat. (12) i. p. 92 (1766). Giraffa camelopardalis, Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 125 (1780) |