THE RHINOCEROS. 



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in the })ossespion of some of the Dutch planters. The 

 height of the animal was seven feet five inches ; and its 

 length, from the snout to the root of the tail, eleven feet 

 six inches." 



The Keitloa (Rh. Keitloa, Smith). 



In general figure this savage species resembles most 

 nearly the common African rhinoceros. (Fig. 13.) 

 There are, however. Dr. Smith observes, many marked 



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13. -Rhinoceros Keitloa. 



differences between them, of which the following are a 

 few of the external and more palpable. In Rhinoceros 

 Keitloa the two horns are of equal or nearly equal 

 length ; in Rhinoceros Africanns the posterior in neither 

 sex is ever much beyond a third of the length of the an- 

 terior horn ; the length of the head in proportion to the 

 dopth is very different in the two. The neck of Rhino- 

 ceros Keitloa is much longer than that of the other, and 



