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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- 



