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this animal is also considerably inferior to the next. The black 
rhinoceros is likewise well characterised by the comparative shortness of 
its skull, and the form and structure of the cheek teeth, which are adapted 
for a diet of twigs and leaves. Average height at shoulder, 5 feet. 
Weight (Capt. R. Meinertzhagen), 1 ton I cwt. I qr. 8 Ibs. 
Black rhinoceroses sometimes have more than the usual two horns. 
Gordon Cumming, for instance, records having killed a three-horned 
Head of Black Rhinoceros. 
specimen ; and Lieut.-Col. E. G. Harrison, writing in the /7zeld of 
December 25, 1897, gives the following measurements of a five-horned 
rhinoceros shot by himself in East Africa :— 
First Horn—Counting from snout, measurement 14% ins.; is a 
normal front horn curving backwards. 
Second Horn.—15+ ins., curving forwards instead of backwards or 
being straight, as is usual, and leaning considerably over to the off-side. 
Third Horn.—11} ins. long and 54 ins. wide half-way between 
base and apex ; is flat and perpendicular, and, though a distinct horn, 
grows out of the off-side of the base of No. 2. 
Fourth Horn—I\s a stumpy, abortive horn, 9 ins. long, growing 
