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fAssKU/s POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



of my wind, which at once alarmed him. Uttering a blowing noise, and erecting his insignificant yet 

 saucy-looking tail, he wheeled about, leaving me master of the field, when I sent a bullet through his 

 ribs to teach him manners." 



The Keitloa* is another species, differing from the common African rhinoceros. In the former, 



the two horns are of equal, or 

 nearly equal, length ; in the latter, 

 the posterior is never, in either 

 sex, much beyond a third of the 

 length of the anterior horn ; the 

 length of the head, in proportion 

 to -the depth, is very different in 

 the two. The neck of Rhinoceros 

 Keitloa is much longer than that 

 of the other, and the position 

 and character of the cuticular 



TEETH OF B11IKOCKKOS OF JAVA. flltt'OWS destined to facilitate the 



very different. Other variations are observable in minor particulars " 



Among the fossil relics of animals which, at some former period, have inhabited our globe and 



i^/rr:r^ g rrr.. succeedin >' f* f ** p-^-* ^ ETS 





b - e my andantt 



o, if all, than those of the fossil elephant : they are as widely distributed as those of t 

 annual, and occur m the same strata and the same localities 



THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 





furnished W^ a fe^S^^T^; ^ M "" 



is coarse, nakel, Inlof ^eat tl JcteT "' " 



Cer" t'l^n*? 77T T^' " ^^ ^ ^ ^^-^ S . The whips known 

 name of l<orl M , (l aw 111;l(1 e of its skin, and form an important article of track, 

 ' liliinoceros Keitlnn 



? ' I Hippopotamus Senrgalensis. Hippopotamus Capeqsis 



rom iir<roc and n,r,; ui ,, horse, and belonging to a river. 



