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Show 1897.] EXISTING FORMS OF GIRAFFE. 277 part); Less. Man. Mamm. p. 369 (1827) (in part); Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 331 (1891) (in part) &c. G. camelopardalls, var., Grav, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 181 (1852). Camelopardalls giraffa, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181 (1788); lllig. Prodr. Syst. Mamm. p. 104 (1811) ; G. Fischer, Zoogn. Tab. Synopt. iii. p. 473 (1814); Desm. Nouv. Diet. H. N. p. 164 (1817) (in part); Is. Geoffr. Diet. Class. H. N. p. 355 (1825) (in part); Cretzschm. Zool.(Atl.)Eiipp. Beise nordl. Afr. p. 23, pis. 8, 9(1826) (in part) ; Et. Geoffr. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 222 (1827) (in part); J. B. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 455 (1830) (in part) ; Smuts, En. Mamm. Cap. p." 67 (1832) (in part); A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 1834, p. 184 (in part); F. Cuv. H.N. Mamm. (fol.) iv. pl. 332 (1842); Less. Nouv. Tabl. Beg. Anim. p. 168 (1842); Sundev. K. Vetensk.-Ak. Handl. Stockh. 1.842, p. 243 (in part); Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 170 (1843) (in part) ; Fitzing. Abh. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867, p. 589 ; &c. C. sennaarensls, Geoffr. (fide Gray) ? C. antlquorum, Swainson, Geogr. & Classif. Anim. p. 134(1835), ex Cretzschm. C. cethloplcus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 134 (nomen nudum). Nubian Giraffe, Owen, Tr. Z. S. ii. p. 217 (1838). G blturigum, Duv. Ann. Sci. Nat. (3) t. i. p. 47, pl. 2 (1844) (vide Forsyth Major, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 316). C. giraffa, var. cethloplca, Sundev. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Stockh. 1844, p. 174. " 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 forehead just above the eyes, cylindrical, from 3 to 5 inches long; in the young animal this position is occupied by a prominent tuft of black hairs. Inhabits Gallaland from the Tana Biver northward, Somaliland, Abyssinia, Kordofan, and probably ranges right across Africa to Senegambia, in suitable localities, from the Equator to about 15° N. THE SOUTHERN OR TWO-HORNED GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAPENSIS, Less. (Figs. 3, 4, p. 281.) Giraffa camelopardalis, Zimmermann (in part) ; Lesson (1827) (in part) ; Gray (1852) (in part); Flower & Lydekker (in part); &c. Camelopardalis giraffa, Desmarest (in part); Is. Geoffroy (in part); F. Cuvier (in part) ; Et. Geoffroy (in part); J. B. Fischer (in part); Smuts; A. Smith (1834); Harris, 111. S. Afr. pl. xi. 1840) ; Gray (1843) ; &c. |