346 "WILD ANIMALS. 



Dr. Sclater, in an article contributed to The Student and Intellectual 

 Observer, for 1870, writes : — " ' Theodore,' as our African rhino- 

 ceros has been named, after his famous but ill-fated compatriot, 

 is now about four feet in height, but still growing fast. He con- 

 sumes daily about three-quarters of a truss of the best clover hay, 

 six quarts of oats, mixed with three pecks of bran, seven pounds' 

 weight of biscuit, and the best part of a truss of straw, so that 

 his board costs the Society from six to seven shillings a day." 



The illustrations accompanying this chapter will enable the 

 reader to see some of the distinctions between the huge Indian 

 rhinoceros and the African two-horned animal. They are both 

 photographs of the specimens belonging to the Zoological Society 

 and the originals are still to be seen in their gardens. 



