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Show 1904.] SUBSPECIES OF GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS. 221 ragged and star-like form characteristic of that race. As to the possibility of the Congo Giraffe being identical with the imperfectly- known G. camelopardalis peralta of Nigex-ia. it may be remarked that the lattex- takes its name from tlxe great length of the cannon-bones of the legs, which indicate a vexy tall animal. The Congo specimen, on the other hand, although apparently adult, is a comparatively small animal. B. Frontal horn rudimentary; limbs more or less fully spotted to the hoofs. 7. ANGOLA GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS ANGOLENSIS. (Plate XIY.) Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis Lydekker, Hutchinson's Animal Life, vol. ii. p. 121 (1903). Hah. Angola. Typified by a mounted male in Mr. Rothschild's Museum, at Tring, from the Cunene River-, 150 miles south-west of Hurxxbe. Max-kings more of the network type than in G. c. capensis. Spots on face confined to an area lying below a longitudinal line running beneath the eye to the angle of the mouth. A small and indistinct triangular area below the ear in which the groundcolour is white. Body-spots large, with ill-defined margins, and brown in colour; a sudden break into smaller spots about the middle of the thigh. Ground-colour white or whitish; legs fully spotted to the hoofs, with the ground-colour of their lower portion tawrry. Frontal horn represented by a low tuberosity or swelling. This x-ace differs from the Cape form, as repi'esented by the old bull formerly exhibited in the British Museum, by the lighter-ground- colour, tlxe more net-like type of coloration, the browner-colour of the spots, and the greater degree to which the latter extend on to the sides of tlxe face. Whether posterior horns were developed, I have not been able to ascertain. 8. N O R T H E R N TRANSVAAL GIRAFFE. GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS WARDI, subsp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) Hctb. Northern Tx-ansvaal. Tvpified by the body-skin of an adult bull presented by Mr.'Rothschild to the British Museum, together with the skull and mounted head and neck of the same individual presented by Mr. Rowland Ward. A large and dark chocolate-coloured Giraffe, with the frontal horn in old bulls represented by a low irregular boss, the posterior. or occipital, horns enormously developed, and the body-spots broken up into irregular- stars, recalling those of G. c. tippelskirchi, from which, together with G. schillingsi, the present form (apart from the absence of a frontal horn) is broadly distinguished by the dark chocolate-In-own. instead of chestnut, colour of the body- |
