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Gemts. Rhinoceros. 



11. Rhinoceros Africanus. The African Rhinoceros. Rhi- 

 naster of the Cape Colonists. Chukuioo of the Matabili, 



Upwards of six feet high at the shoulder, and above thirteen 

 fee,t in extreme length. Body very robust and clumsy. Legs 

 short and small, each with three toes. Head long and large. 

 Eyes small and lateral. Snout hooked, and resembling that of a 

 tortoise: armed with two horns* on the muzzle, placed one 

 behind the other; the anterior usually from one to two feet 

 long ; the posterior generally small, but capricious — in some 

 specimens attaining the same, or nearly the same length. Ears 

 pointed and approximated, placed on the neck. Skin naked ; 

 very thick, rugous, and knotty, but without plaits or folds. 

 Colour brownish black. Tail about two feet long, laterally 

 compressed at the end, and furnished with a few bristles. 



Female similar, but smaller. Mammae two. Very common 

 in the interior. 



VI. Rhinoceros Sinusus. The White Rhinoceros. Witte Rhi- 

 n aster of the Cape Colonists. Chicore of the Matabili and 

 Bechuana. 



Six feet six or eight inches high at the shoulder, and above 

 fourteen in extreme length. Head four feet long. Muzzle trun- 

 cated, upwards of eighteen inches in breadth ; furnished with 

 two horns placed one behind the other as in the last species ; 

 the anterior robust at the base, tapering, and about three feet 

 in length; the posterior a mere excrescence, five or six inches 

 long. Ears pointed and approximated, placed on the neck. A 

 square hump immediately behind them. Eyes very diminutive 

 and lateral. Legs short and straight, terminating in three toes. 

 Tail about two feet long, compressed and bristled at the extre- 

 mity. Hide very rough and knotty, extremely thick, with folds 

 and plaits about the neck. Colour varying; usually dirty 

 brownish white. 



Female similar, but smaller. Mammee two. Very common in 

 the interior, after passing Kurrichane. 



* The horns of no two specimens of this animal that came under my obser- 

 vation were exactly the same. Disease or accident not unfrequently renders 

 the anterior horn the shorter of the two. 



