. Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 414 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA sexes, I was curious to put them on the scales : taking the dried skulls of two wild-killed Abyssinian animals, I found that of the male weighed 19 lb. 8 oz., while that of the female only weighed 7 lb. 6 oz. The bones of the skull of the female are verj' smooth and thin ; the whole of the upper. Young Female Giraffe o
. Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 414 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA sexes, I was curious to put them on the scales : taking the dried skulls of two wild-killed Abyssinian animals, I found that of the male weighed 19 lb. 8 oz., while that of the female only weighed 7 lb. 6 oz. The bones of the skull of the female are verj' smooth and thin ; the whole of the upper. Young Female Giraffe of the Northern Species (Giraffa camelopardalis). (From a Photograph of a Mounted Head.) side of the skull of the male is covered with a rough superficial osseous growth, which has its centre in the three horns, gradually enveloping the whole of the upper parts of the skull, forming lumps on the supraoccipital and supraorbital bones, and covering' the face to the end of the nasals and the cheeks, so that all the true bones are completely hidden. Mr. Arthur H. Neumann—to whom I am much indebted for loan of. 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 Neumann, Arthur H. London : R. Ward, limited
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