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by other writers, it attains a greater si Ze in Southern Africa (I have not 

 myself shot any there) ; and in East Africa, too, it seems to become smaller 

 as we go north, as shown by the following measurements, of which the 

 first is from Mr. F. j. Jackson's notes, the other two are my own (the length 

 being exclusive of the tail, which measures about 2 feet, more or less) — 

 adult bull (Naivasha), height = 5 feet 5 inches; length = I2 feet , inch ■ 

 adult bull (Seya River), height = 5 feet 3 inches; length = 10 feet • 



ck Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bhorms) photographed by Lord Delan 

 the Volcanic Country to the cast of Lake Rudolph. 

 The birds on the back are crows, not rhinoceros birds 



adult bull (Lake Rudolph), height = 4 feet 9 inches; length = 9 feet. 

 (All these measurements were made in straight lines.) Length of horn 

 is, as I have endeavoured to show in the book before referred to, a 

 purely fortuitous individual trait ; and the extremely long horns (mostly 

 of females) which have occasionally been obtained from traders on the 

 east coast and brought home are merely exceptionally fine specimens, 

 selected from among large numbers brought to the coast (the bulk of 

 which, I am told, go to China to be ground up into medicine), and do 



