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Show 1904.] SUBSPECIES OF GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS. 211 The type of this race is the mounted adult bull in the British Museum, shot by Major Powell-Cotton on the Quashengeshu (pronounced Washengeshu) Plateau to the east of Lake Baringo, from which it is sepax-ated by a forest-clad mountain-range. The mounted head and neck (as well as the skull) of the " five-horned" bull Giraffe in the British Museum (text-fig. 26), brought from Mount Elgon by Sir- H. Johnston and already alluded to. Text-fig. 26. Head and neck of old bull Baringo Giraffe, showing the five horns. (From the 'Guide to Mammalia in British Museum.') doubtless belongs to this form. It is true that the whole colour-is much darker, the white area below the ear smaller and less distinct, and the spotting on the face much less developed; but in another specimen fi-onx the same locality, figured by Sir H. Johnston in 'The Uganda Protectorate' and herewith reproduced (text-fig. 27, p. 213), these features are much tlxe same as in tlxe 14* |
