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these parts Is glossy black and quite profuse, but In the 

 female skins the covering is much thinner and decidedly 

 brownish In color. The young at birth are no more hairy 

 than the adults, possessing only the ear and tail fringes of 

 coarse hair. 



The skins of the white rhinoceroses cannot under the 

 most lenient consideration be classed as white. They are, 

 however, distinctly lighter than those of the black species, 

 and may on this account be allowed to retain their popular 

 designation of white. The blackness seen In the mounted 

 specimens Is due to pigment put on by the taxidermists, 

 and such specimens do not represent the natural color of 

 the animal. Their true color is smoke-gray, as defined by 

 Ridgway, a color conspicuously lighter than the dark clove- 

 brown of their geographical ally, Diceros bicornis. The 

 four adult skins from the Lado Enclave show some varia- 

 tion, the color ranging from smoke-gray to broccoli-brown. 

 The two male skins are lighter than the female but the 

 color differences are not constant, the two female skins 

 varying more in color from each other than they do from 

 the mafe skins. 



Measurements of an adult male in the flesh shot by 

 Colonel Roosevelt at Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave, are: 

 length of head and body along contour, ii feet 9 inches; 

 length of tail to end of vertebrae, 2 feet 5 inches; standing 

 height at shoulders, 5 feet 8 Inches; length of ear, 11 Inches; 

 length of hind foot (hock to tip of middle hoof), i foot 7 

 inches. Skull of the largest male: greatest length, 2 feet 

 9 inches; zygomatic width, i foot 3>^ Inches; length of 

 upper tooth row, 10 Inches; projection of occipital crests 

 above dorsal plane of skull, i^ inches. The largest-horned 

 specimen in the National Museum is a female shot by Ker- 

 mit Roosevelt. This horn measures 29^^ Inches in length 

 and exhibits the peculiar forward pitch which is not infre- 

 quently shown by specimens from South Africa. The pitch 

 forward In this case is extreme, the point coming in con- 

 tact with the ground In feeding, so that the point is worn 

 flat on Its outer face. No other Lado horn showing this 

 peculiarity of curvature has been seen. The longest horn 

 in Major Powell-Cotton's collection Is 36 inches in length, 

 and in shape curves backward in the normal way. This 



