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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 



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The calf, which was old enough to shift for itself, refused to leave the body 

 From a photograph, copyright, by Kermil Roosevelt 



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 



