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exactly as with many black rhinos (although it is some- 

 times stated that this does not occur in the case of the 

 white rhino). We preserved the head-skin and skull for 

 the National Museum. 



The flesh of this rhino, especially the hump, proved 

 excellent. It is a singular thing that scientific writers seem 

 almost to have overlooked, and never lay any stress upon, 

 the existence of this neck hump. It is on the neck, forward 

 of the long dorsal vertebra, and is very conspicuous in 

 the living animal; and I am inclined to think that some 

 inches of the exceptional height measurements attributed 

 to South African white rhinos may be due to measuring 

 to the top of this hump. I am also puzzled by what seems 

 to be the great inferiority in horn development of these 

 square-mouthed rhinos of the Lado to the square-mouthed 

 or white rhinos of South Africa (and, by the way, I may 

 mention that on the whole these Lado rhinos certainly 

 looked lighter colored, when we came across them stand- 

 ing in the open, than did their prehensile-lipped East Afri- 

 can brethren). We saw between thirty and forty square- 

 mouthed rhinos in the Lado, and Kermit's cow had much 

 the longest horn of any of them; and while they averaged 

 much better horns than the black rhinos we had seen in East 

 Africa, between one and two hundred in number, there 

 were any number of exceptions on both sides. There are 

 recorded measurements of white rhino horns from South 

 Africa double as long as our longest from the Lado. Now 

 this is, scientifically, a fact of some importance, but it is of 

 no consequence whatever when compared with the question 

 as to what, if any, the difference is between the average 

 horns; and this last fact is very difficult to ascertain, largely 



