. Mammifères d'autres terres ;. Les mammifères. La girafe et l'okapi 239 United sur le crâne. Une troisième race ou sous-espèce de girafe a été identifié en Afrique de l'Ouest principalement du crâne et os de canon, d'un spécimen tourné en 1897 à la jonction de l'Binue et Niger ; mais très httle est connu sur ce formulaire. D'autres variétés ou sous-espèces peuvent encore être découvertes dans d'autres parties du continent noir. Elle est absente de la girafe de la long cou. L'imposant fort de la girafe est entièrement attribuable à la grande longueur du cou et des membres. Un adulte girafe bull sera certainement mesurer o

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. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE GIRAFFE AND OKAPI 239 united to the skull. A third race or sub-species of giraffe has been identified in Western Africa mainly from the skull and cannon-bones of a specimen shot in 1897 at the junction of the Binue and Niger Rivers; but very httle is known about this form. Other varieties or sub-species may yet be discovered in other parts of the Dark Continent. It is lacking in the giraffe's long neck. The towering height of the giraffe is entirely attributable to the great length of the neck and limbs. A full-grown bull giraffe will certainly measure occasionally as much as 19 feet in height. I measured very carefully a specimen shot by my hunting friend, Mr. W. Dove, in the forests of the North Kalahari, South Africa, which taped 18 feet 11^ inches. A fine cow, shot by myself in the same country, measured 16 feet 10 inches, and there is no reason to suppose that cow giraffes do not easily reach fully 17 feet in height. These animals feed almost entirely upon the leaves of acacia-trees, the foliage of the kameel-doorn, or giraffe-acacia, affording their most favourite food-supply. It is a most beautiful spectacle to see, as I have seen, a large troop of these dappled giants"— creatures which, somehow, viewed in the wild state, always seem to me to belong to another epoch — quietly browsing, with upstretched necks and delicate heads, among the branches of the spreading mokala, as the Bechuanas call this tree. The giraffe's upper lip is long and prehensile, and covered, no doubt as a protection against thorns, with a thick velvety coating of short hair. The tongue is long— some 18 inches in length — and is employed for plucking down the tender leafage on which the giraffe feeds. The eyes of the giraffe are most beautiful — dark brown, shaded by long lashes, and peculiarly tender and melting in expression. Singularly enough, the animal is absolutely mute, and never, even in its death-agonies, utters a sound. The

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