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Show 210 MIL K. LYDEKKER o\" THE [Feb. 2, unacquainted with the female of the South Lado Giraffe, and that when this is known it may turn out that the difference in the coloration of the two sexes may be much less pronounced than in the Baringo race. Indeed, the general type of coloration of the South Lado Giraffe is suggestive of a transition from the Baringo form in the direction of the Kordofan Giraffe (G. c. ctntiquornm), in which both sexes are coloured practically alike. In the absence of spotting on tlxe fronto-nasal region of the face, the South Lado Giraffe approximates indeed to the Kordofan animal, as it does in the small size of the spots on the legs. Not that I think there is much likelihood of the South Lado animal pi'ovixxg to be identical with the Kordofan Giraffe ; the colour and arrangement of tlxe spots being apparently somewhat different in the two, while there is no evidence (judging from that of its near x-elative, the Nubian Giraffe) that the skull of the Kordofan race has either the rudimentary occipital horns or the azygous right orbital horn of the type specimen of the present form. 4. BARIXGO GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS ROTHSCHILDI. (Plates XII. k XIII.) Giraffa ccmielopardcdis rothschildi Lydekker, Hutchinson's Animal Life, vol. ii. p. 122 (1903). Hal). The Lake Baringo district and thence eastwax-ds to Mount Elgon, both of which localities lie less than 1° north of the equator. A three-horned Giraffe in which the sexes, in the early adult condition at least, are markedly different as regards both the form arid the colour of the spots, with the lower part of the legs pure white and unspotted, a triangular white area in the neighbourhood of the ear, the spots in adult bulls (PI. XII.) large and very dark-coloured, showing a tendency to split up into stars, as indicated by lighter- tripartite radiating lines in the larger- ones, and the light interspaces yellowish fawn, forming narrow network-lines on the body, but becoming much broader on the rreck. where the spots assume a more irregular and somewhat jagged contour. Above the knees and hocks the spots are chestnut, these chestnut spots extending higher up on the hind than on the fore limbs. Sides of face fully spotted with black. In females (PI. XIII.) the spots are much more irregular, jagged, and star-like, reddish chestnut in colour rqiori a light orange-fawn ground. The light areas on the neck very wide, and the spots on the legs very small, white area round ear- small ; sides of face sparsely spotted*. Five hox-ns generally or invariably present in old bulls, owing to the development of the posterior, or occipital, pair. * Capt. Flower has sent m e the photograph of a female Giraffe, said to have come from near R'assala, marked like this specimen. The suggestion arises that it was brought from further smith. |