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WATER ^YOUNG BREEDING SIZE. 



Water is indispensable to the rhinoceros, and, even if his 

 usual haunts be distant from the fountain, he seeks it at least 

 once in the course of the twenty-four hours, as well to quench 

 ]iis thirst as to wallow in the mud, with which his body is 

 frequently incrusted, leaving to the thirsty traveler nothing 

 but a mass of well-kneaded dough. 



FCETUS OF EHINOCEEOS KEITLOA. 



Little seems to be known of the breeding habits of this 

 animal : whether it lives in monogamy, or has a plurality of 

 wives, and so forth. It appears certain, however, that the 

 female only produces one young at a birth, and that, too, at 

 considerable intervals. During the jfirst month, the young 

 rhinoceros exceeds not the size of a large dog, with the mer- 

 est indication of horns. A complete and full-grown foetus 

 of R. Keitloa that I once obtained measured thus : 



Length of body (from tip of nose, over the head, and pt. in. ' 



along the back) to insertion of tail 3 6 



Length of tail 10 



Circumference of body behind shoulder 2 4 



" neck 1 6 



" head (across the eyes) 1 8 



Height at the shoulder 2 1 



Length of head between ears and eyes 42- 



Breadth " " " 4 



" " " eyes (corner nearest nostrils) 7 



