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One of these, the head of which I still have in my collection, measured, when his legs and neck had been pulled out into as straight a line as possible, just 17 feet, the measurement having been taken between two stakes, the one driven into the ground at the base of the forefoot, the other at the top of the short horns. This giraffe was undoubtedly a very large animal, and I remember very well Mr. Rowland Ward remarking- on the size of its skull, compared to one which had lately been brought fr...om Somaliland by the late Mr. F. L. James, as they both lay side by side in Piccadilly. The other giraffe I measured also a big bull, or, at any rate, an old one could only have stood i 6 feet 6 inches in height, in a straight line from the heel of the forefoot to the top of the horns. The original old South 218 AFRICAN NATURE NOTES CHAP. African bull giraffe, too, which once used to stand in the Mammalian Gallery of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, and which always appeared to me to be a magnificent specimen in point of size, only measured as set up 1 7 feet 5 inches from the ground to the top of the horns.
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