WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



two horns, but there have been found animals with as 

 many as five. The horns are often cast and then re- 

 newed, except in very old animals. The biggest horns 

 recorded bv Rowland Ward measured fiftv-three and a 



THE SPECIMEN NOW IN THE COLONIAL MUSEUM, BERLIN 



half inches and sixty-two and a half inches. The former 

 belonged to a "common," or "black," East African rhi- 

 noceros {Rhinoceros hicornis), the latter to a "white" 

 South African animal {Rhinoceros simus). I bought a 

 horn in Zanzibar fifty -four inches long. The longest 

 horn of a rhinoceros shot by me measured from twenty- 

 four to thirty-four inches. 



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