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The two exceptions, however, to this rule seem to be the zebra and the 

 rhinoceros. Not infrequently the East African rhinoceroses produce horns 

 of extraordinary length. The record, I believe, is forty-seven inches for the 

 front horn. I obtained from the north-eastern part of Uganda (Karamojo 

 country) a hovn measuring forty-three inches long. It is alwavs said bv the 

 natives tliat these very long horns are grown by old females. I do not 

 know whether this is true, but I only know in my own exjjerience that 

 I have never seen the head of a male pointed-lipped rhinoceros bearing an 

 exceedingly long front horn, though his front horn is always thicker and 

 larger at the base than it is in the female. P'emale horns are not only 

 long, but slender, and sometimes the extremity is a little thicker than 

 the diameter of the horn lower down — that is to say, the long front horn, 

 instead of tapering to a ]>oint, becomes very slender, and then expands 

 into a sjiatulate tip. It is clitiieult to see of what use this very 

 attenuated horn can l^e, as it looks too slender to be of much use as a 

 weapon of offence with such a iieavy mass behind it. I am inclined 

 to believe that all these very long horns coming from the Uganda 

 Protectorate belong to the (miscalled) white rhinoceros, the rhinoceros 



