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HORNS OF RHINOCEROS OSWELLH. 



eros {rhinoceros bicornis); the other, the Keitloa {i-hinoceros 

 Keitloa), or the two-horned black rhinoceros, as it is also 

 termed by naturalists. The latter differs from the Borele in 

 being somewhat larger, with a longer neck; in having the 

 horns of nearly equal length, with a lesser number of wrinkles 

 about the head ; and it is of a more wild and morose disposi- 

 tion. The upper lip of both (more especially in the Keitloa) 

 is pointed, overlaps the lower, and is capable of extension. 

 It is pliable, and the animal can move it from side to side, 

 twist it round a stick, collect its food, or seize with it any 

 thing it would carry to its mouth. Both species are ex- 

 tremely fierce, and, excepting the buffalo, are perhaps the 

 most dangerous of all the beasts in Southern Africa. 



Of the white species, we have the common white rhinoc- 

 eros (rhinoceros simus, Burch.), called Monoohoo by the Be- 

 chuanas, and the Kobaaba {i^hinoceros Osweliii, Gray), or long- 



HOKX8 OF RJIINOCKROS OSWTTLLII. 



