. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Ungulates. 237 Giraffe reticulatus, Lanhester, Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1907, p. 125. '?) Giraffa hagenbeoki, Knottnerus-Meyer, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxv, p. 800, 1910; M. de Rothschild and Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 12, 1911 (as a form of reticulata); Lydeklcer, Game Animals of Africa, Suppl. p. 20, 1911. Typical locality southern Somaliland, whence the range extends to Gallaland, and, through the Lake Eudolf district, to the Guaso-nyiro, British East Africa, and perhaps to Kenia. General col
. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Ungulates. 237 Giraffe reticulatus, Lanhester, Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1907, p. 125. '?) Giraffa hagenbeoki, Knottnerus-Meyer, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxv, p. 800, 1910; M. de Rothschild and Neuville, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 9, vol. xiii, p. 12, 1911 (as a form of reticulata); Lydeklcer, Game Animals of Africa, Suppl. p. 20, 1911. Typical locality southern Somaliland, whence the range extends to Gallaland, and, through the Lake Eudolf district, to the Guaso-nyiro, British East Africa, and perhaps to Kenia. General colour typically deep liver-red, marked with a coarse net-work of narrow white lines, the subquadrangular. Pig. 39.—Skull of Netted Gibapfe (Oiraffa reticulata). From de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907.* meshes of which gradually decrease in size towards the head, although they are everywhere large; on the head the red areas change to rounded chestnut spots on a fawn ground; backs of ears white, as are shanks (in adult males), the hind pair more or less spotted superiorly, especially in females. Anterior horn well developed (fig. 39). The essential feature of the colour-pattern is, so to speak, the superposition of a coarse white network on a liver-red ground, so that it cannot be described as spotted. * There named G. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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