. The game animals of Africa . sence of a well-developed frontal horn, this giraffe isclearly allied to the northern and eastern races of the species ; but, onthe other hand, it resembles the South African race {G. c. capensis)in having the hind-legs spotted right down to the hoofs ; the fore-limbs also displaying the same feature, although less distinctly. Thesides of the head are much more fully spotted than in the Cape form,and the tail is remarkable for the great fulness of its terminal the spotting of the legs this giraffe resembles most specimens of GIRAFFE 365 G. c. tippelskircJ
. The game animals of Africa . sence of a well-developed frontal horn, this giraffe isclearly allied to the northern and eastern races of the species ; but, onthe other hand, it resembles the South African race {G. c. capensis)in having the hind-legs spotted right down to the hoofs ; the fore-limbs also displaying the same feature, although less distinctly. Thesides of the head are much more fully spotted than in the Cape form,and the tail is remarkable for the great fulness of its terminal the spotting of the legs this giraffe resembles most specimens of GIRAFFE 365 G. c. tippelskircJii, although the dark markings show no trace of theragged and star-Hke form characteristic of that race. In all the remaining races of this species the frontal horn isrudimentary ; and the limbs are more or less fully spotted to thehoofs. The first of these races is the Angola giraffe {G. ), which is typified by a mounted male in Mr. RothschildsMuseum at Tring (fig. 72), from the Cunene river, i 50 miles south-west. Fig. 72.—The Angola Girafle. of Humbe. The markings are more of the network type than inG. c. capensis. The spots on the face are confined to an area lyingbelow a longitudinal line running beneath the eye to the angle of themouth ; and there is a small and indistinct triangular area below theear in which the ground-colour is white. The body-spots are large,with ill-defined margins, and brown in colour ; but there is a suddenbreak into smaller spots about the middle of the thigh. The ground-colour is white or whitish ; and the legs are fully spotted to the hoofs, 366 GIRAFFE GROUP with the ground-colour of their lower portion tawny. The frontal hornis represented by a low tuberosity or swelling. This race differs from the southern giraffe, as represented by an oldbull formerly exhibited in the British Museum, by the lighter ground-colour, the more net-like type of coloration, the browner colour of thespots, and the greater degree to which the latter ext
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