Only one kind of African elephant has 

 hitherto been generally known, but a year or 

 two ago the East African Standard published 

 particulars of a somewhat mysterious "water- 

 elephant," as it was called, discovered by a 

 Frenchman in a lake in the Congo. It seems 

 to be of smaller build than the ordinary kind, 

 with short ears and no tusks. Further evi- 

 dence, however, seems desirable before taking 

 this creature very seriously, though, in view of 

 the recent discovery of the okapi, it is unsafe 

 to predict that Africa may not have other sur- 

 prises in store. 



RHINOCEROS 



There are perhaps it would be more accu- 

 rate to say there were two kinds of African 

 rhinoceros. The white, or square-mouthed 

 kind, also named after Burchell, is all but 

 extinct, and only the black kind survives in 

 any numbers in the wild state. 



As a matter of fact, the " white" rhinoceros 

 of Africa no more deserves its name than the 

 "white" elephant of Burma, for it is grey, 

 and the same may be said of the "black" 

 kind. Each of them carries two horns on the 

 snout. In the square-mouthed rhinoceros the 

 fore -horn has been known to measure over 

 62 in., whereas the longest recorded fore-horn 

 in the black rhinoceros was only 44 in. In- 



