. The game animals of Africa . light orange-fawn ground. The light areas on the neckare very wide, and the spots on the legs very small, while the whitearea round the ear is small ; and the sides of the face are sparselyspotted. Five horns are generally or invariably present in old bulls, owingto the development of the posterior, or occipital, pair. The type specimen of this race is a mounted adult bull in theBritish Museum, shot by Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton on the GIRAFFE 359 Quashengeshu (pronounced Uashengeshu) plateau to the east of LakeBaringo, from which it is separated by a forest-cl
. The game animals of Africa . light orange-fawn ground. The light areas on the neckare very wide, and the spots on the legs very small, while the whitearea round the ear is small ; and the sides of the face are sparselyspotted. Five horns are generally or invariably present in old bulls, owingto the development of the posterior, or occipital, pair. The type specimen of this race is a mounted adult bull in theBritish Museum, shot by Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton on the GIRAFFE 359 Quashengeshu (pronounced Uashengeshu) plateau to the east of LakeBaringo, from which it is separated by a forest-clad mounted head and neck of a five-horned bull giraffe in theBritish Museum (fig. 69) brought from Mount Elgon by Sir H. doubtless belongs to this race. It is true that the whole colouris much darker, the white area below the ear smaller and less distinct,and the spotting on the face much less developed ; but in anotherspecimen from the same locality, figured by Sir H. H. Johnston in TJie wr-vflt. P^iG. 69.—Head of Bull Baringo Giraffe from Mount Elgon. Uganda Protectorate, these features are much the same as in the presumed female of this race is a specimen in the British by Major Powell-Cotton near Lake Baringo. As I am informedthat bulls precisely similar to the type Quashengeshu specimen occurwith the Lake Baringo herd, and as this statement is confirmed by amale skin from that district I have had the opportunity of inspecting,there seems every reason for associating the female with the presentrace. The marked discrepancy in the coloration of the two sexes istherefore a very distinctive feature of this race at this age. I am, 36o GIRAFFE GROUP however, informed by Sir H. H. Johnston that a very aged female shot inthe Elgon district was remarkable for its exceedingly dark colour. Sodark, indeed, was this animal, that at a distance it appeared quite auniform sepia-tint. This indicates that the mounted female in theBritish
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