A LONDON RHINOCEROS 



of the Museum (Fig. 3). It is similar in 

 structure and nature to the sloth. But instead 

 of living on a tree it stood on the ground, and 

 pulled the tree down to it, in order to feed on 

 the young branches. The skeletons of a great 

 many of these huge sloths have been found in 

 the gravel of South America. 



Another strange great creature is revealed to us 

 by this skeleton (Fig. 4), like a huge guinea pig 

 with tremendous chisel-like teeth in front. It 

 also is found in South America. This is the 

 Toxodon. 



The next picture (Fig. 5) I have here shows 

 the skulls of two rhinoceroses. The lower one 

 is the skull of an African rhinoceros, a Uving 

 beast known as the square-mouthed or white 

 rhinoceros — called white apparently, not because 

 he is black, but in spite of the fact that he is 

 black. As a matter of fact he sometimes has a 

 number of white patches. But it suffices to 

 know him as the square-mouthed rhinoceros. 



The upper specimen is the skull and lower 

 jaw of a rhinoceros, dug up last year in the 

 City of London in Whitefriars, under the 

 office of the well-known newspaper the Daily 

 Chronicle. Digging in the mud and clay there, 



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