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Show 208 MR, R. LYDEKKER ON THE [Feb. 2, instead of black. There are also much smaller spots on the nape of the neck. So far as can be determined, tlxe spots on the shoulder are very much smaller than in the complete Baringo male, none of them approaching in size the few large ones so characteristic of that animal. On both sides of the upper part of tlxe fore-leg the spots are vexy markedly smaller and more numerous than in tlxe latter; while on tlxe front and inner sides they are pale fawn, instead of being, as on tlxe outer side, black*. The main horns are decidedly smaller than in tlxe males of the Bax-ingo Gix-affe, and the development of the postex-ior horns is also somewhat less. In the skull of the type and only known specimen, the light main hox-xx is decidedly larger than the left horn. A much more remarkable feature is the presence of a horn projecting horizontally outwards from the middle of the fx-ontal border of the right orbit, this hoin being apparently capped by a distinct epiphysis. No tx-ace of any such horn is obsex-vable Text-fig. 25. Right lateral view of skull of male South Lado Giraffe, showing azygous orbital horn (a). on the left orbit. I am informed by Major- Powell-Cotton that all tlxe male Giraffes from the locality in question seem to be furnished with a similar right orbital horn. The same gentleman also tells me that in some specimens of the Baringo Giraffe a similarly-placed horn occurs on the left side. There is, however-, no trace of any such horn in any of the skulls of that race in the Museum. The skull also differs from that of an old male Baringo Giraffe by its lower and narrower form, and more especially by the * Already the spots on the inner side of the right fore-leg of the male Baringo Giraffe in the Museum, which is exposed to the light, have faded from black to grey or tawii}'. |
