. Mammifères d'autres terres ;. Les mammifères. Les 244 ANIMAUX DU MONDE vivant de la plus grande deux crânes appartenait à un jeune homme. C'est la peau qui est désormais mis en place au Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de South Kensington, et d'une illustration photographique qui accompagne cet avis. Lors de la réception de cette peau, j'ai vu immédiatement ce que l'okapi a été - à savoir, une relation étroite de la girafe. Le développement de la très petite de la corne-boss, J'ai cru qu'il était plus proche allié de l'helladotherium que de la vivre girafe. En transmettant les spécimens au professeur Ray Lankester, je propose donc de

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. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. 244 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD bigger of the two skulls belonged to a young male. This is the skin which is now set up in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, and of which a photographic illustration accompanies this notice. Upon receiving this skin, I saw at once what the okapi was — namely, a close relation of the giraffe. From the very small development of the horn-bosses, I believed that it was nearer allied to the helladotherium than to the living giraffe. In forwarding the specimens to Professor Ray Lankester, I therefore proposed that it should be called Helladotherium tigrinum. Professor Ray Lankester, having examined the specimens with a greater knowledge than I possessed, decided that the animal was rather more closely allied to the giraffe than to the helladotherium, but that it possessed sufficient peculiarities of its own to oblige him to create for its reception a new genus, which he proposed to call Ocapia. Meantime, the original strips of the skin (which apparently belonged to an older and larger animal than the specimen mounted at South Kensington) had been pronounced by experts to whom they were submitted to be the skin of an undiscovered species of horse, and this supposed new horse had been tentatively named by Dr. P. L. Sclater Eqittts john- stoni. The full dis- covery obliged Professor Ray Lan- kester to set aside any idea of the okapi being allied to the horse, but he was good enough to attach Mr. Sclater's specific name o{ johnstoni to his newly founded genus of Ocapia. Up to the time of writing this is all that is known of this extraordinary survival in the Congo Forest of the only living relation of the giraffe. We know by palaeontological discoveries in Europe and in Asia that there existed a large family of ruminants which in their develop- ment and features were neither of the Ox group nor of the Deer, but in some respects occupied a position midway between these two branches of clove

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