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Show 214 MR. R. LYDEKKER OX THE [Feb. 2, b. The lower part of the legs-especially the hind pair--more or less spotted and dark-coloured. 5. KILIMANJARO GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS TIPPELSKIRCHI. Giraffa tippelskirchi 1 Matschie, SB. Ges. naturfor. Berlin, Giraffa schilling si j 1898, p. 77. Hob. Typically Lake Eyassi, to the south-west of the Victoria Nyanza, but extending due westward to the neighbourhood of Text-fig. 28. Type skin (young female), from Lake Eyassi, of Kilimanjaro Giraffe (G. tippelskirchi Matschie). Mount Kilimanjaro, in about lat. 3° south of the equator. Also the Masai country, a little further north. Probably extending southwards into Portuguese East Africa. |