THE AFRICAN RHINOCEROSES. 



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forwards, and in some cases even downwards. This Mr. Drummond considers not to be a distinct 

 species, but only an accidental and local variety. 



The so-called BLACK RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros bicornis major] is a much smaller animal than R 

 simus, being about eleven feet in length and five feet in height, with an elongated head and horns 

 thicker in proportion to length than those of R. simus. The front horn is twenty inches or 



"WHITE" BHIXOCEROS. 



twenty-two inches in length, and never attains to more than twenty-six or twenty-eight inches ; while 

 the back horn averages ten inches or twelve inches. Its skin is not black, but flesh-coloured, and the 

 upper lip is highly prehensile. The first specimen ever brought to Europe was captured in Upper 

 Nubia in 1868, and was provided with a lodging in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. 

 It is found in all the country south of the Zambesi ; inhabits thorn thickets chiefly (in which R. 

 simus is never found), but occasionally occurs in other jungle or open ground. It feeds chiefly on 

 thorn leaves and branches, though also eating grass, for the plucking of which its flexible upper lip 

 is as well fitted as the long tongue of the Giraffe. It is gregarious, five or six being sometimes 

 found together. 



The KEITLOA, or Sloan's Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros keitloa), differs but little from R. bicornis major, 



