(;r>L> ATRICAN CAMK ANIMALS 



(I'l'dc'd llu- liar one hciii^ considered the rommon species 

 and those having the two horns of nearly e(|ual size hein^ 

 the keilloa rai e. Tliese (hsl ini t ions, liowever, have lon^ 

 since been abandoned, and to-day a single h)rni is recog- 

 nized tluou^liont tlie greater part of Africa and another 

 sniaHer one in tlie desert re|!;i()n of I'.ast Alric a and Sonia- 

 liland. Tlie iiorns everywhere show ^reat diversity of 

 shape and no dependence for racial characters can be 

 assi|j;ned to them. This is ovvinj.', in a measure, to their 

 bein^ skin structures solely without any clelinite connection 

 with the bony structure of the skull. They thus have ^reat 

 freedom of form and position and show decided variation 

 in number at times, 'rhree-hornecl spec imens are occasion- 

 ally met with, and a live-horned one has recently been re- 

 corded. This one is described by Rowland Ward in his 

 well-known " Records of \V\^ ( lame," who cjuotes the original 

 discoverer to the effect that besides the two front horns the 

 three rear horns which follow are ^ood-sized, the shortest 

 bein^ nine inches lon^, but they are not all in line; some 

 s|)rin^ laterally from the bases of the others. 



Speke and (Irant met with j^reat numbers ol' black 

 rhinoceroses in Kara^we, just west of the Victoria Nyanza 

 and south oi" tlie Uganda l)oundary in what is now (lerman 

 territory. Hesides the black species they fancied that the 

 white also inhabited this district, and they referred certain 

 lon^-horned sj)ecimens of the black to that species. In 

 their account of the ^ame animals met with they state 

 accurately the well-known difference in the shape ol the 

 lips in the two rhinoceroses, but ^ive a li|;ure ol a typical 

 pointed-li|)pecl rhinoceros head as that of a white sj)ecimen. 

 The same re}j;ion was visited by Stanley some years later, 

 and he also ^ives an account of the ^reat numbers ol rlii- 

 iiocc'ioses met with and the killing ol several lor lood. lie 

 refers to some of the spec imens as white, his statement re- 

 ferring merely to tluii color, he bein^ apparently cpiite 

 unaware of the existciu c of the sj^ecies to which sportsmen 

 have ai)plied the name "white." Since these early days 

 several sportsmen well accpiainted with the distinguishing 

 characters of the two species have visited Kara^we and 

 have found only the black s|)ecies in the district. 



The black iliinoceros of V/Ast Africa is occasionally re- 



