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dropped anywhere, if the rhino is travelhng much; but 

 where a rhino, as is often the case, is spending its whole 

 time in one rather Hmited locahty, it returns again and 

 again to the same place to dung. It kicks and scatters the 

 dung about with its hind feet — not its horn. In one place 

 we found a cow rhino which had evidently been living for 

 many weeks in the river-bottom of the Athi. There was 

 plenty of food in the brush jungle which filled the spaces 

 between the trees, and which afforded thick cover; there 

 was abundant water in pools near by; and evidently the 

 rhino had kept close to the immediate neighborhood. The 

 dunging place was kicked and ploughed up, and it looked 

 as if the beast had rolled and wallowed much, in addition to 

 kicking around the dung. This rhino spent its time in the 

 immediate vicinity of its drinking-place, and during most of 

 the day lay up in the dense shade of the green river-bottom 

 jungle, apparently feeding at night and in the early morning 

 and late evening. In other localities the animals differed in 

 their habits. On the Northern Guaso Nyiro we found the 

 rhinos drinking once every twenty-four hours, at night, and 

 then travelling back at a good gait in a fairly direct course 

 for eight or ten miles into the wastes of leafless thorn scrub, 

 upon which they fed and in which they passed their noon- 

 day hours of rest. In the Sotik the rhinos spent their whole 

 time in the bare, open plains, drinking at one or another of 

 the widely scattered, rapidly drying little pools. They usu- 

 ally drank at dusk; that is, about nightfall, and again about 

 sunrise. Sometimes during the noon hours they lay out in 

 the open, without a particle of cover; sometimes they lay 

 under an acacia, or wild olive, or candelabra euphorbia. 

 They sometimes stood while resting, but usually lay down, 



