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I ribs but run at an angle to them; yet 
each one is as hard and stiff as if it were 
actually encasing a bit of bone. As far 
as is known at present this is peculiar 
to animals found in one particular part of 
British East Africa. 
In spite of their thick skins rhinp often 
suffer from terrible gashes and wounds. 
§ The former are probably rips from the 
!i horns of their kind, made whilst fight- 
! ing. The wounds and sores which are 
I nearly always found, especially on the 
I softer underside, are probably due to 
I numerous tick bites and the birds pecking 
I and tearing them out. I once met a rhino 
' that had a gash extending almost from 
the spine to the belly — nearly half the 
circumference of the animal. It is diffi- 
cult to imagine how it could have got 
such a gash as this, even from the most 
vicious rip of a horn. 
Numbers of scarab beetles are found in 
rhino country and when one is killed and 
the intestines cut out one generally hears 
the booming of large scarabs, doubtless 
attracted by smell, approaching in quan- 
tities. They alight near the body and im- 
mediately busy themselves making up and 
rolling away balls of dung. There are an 
immense variety of these with different 
numbers and shapes of horns, or with 
crowns, or crests, of spikes. There is one 
particular beetle which has a horn which 
is a miniature facsimile of the anterior 
horn of tho rhino itself. 
ROOSEVELT AS A 
STUDENT OF BIRDS 
(CON-nNUED FROM PAGE 605) 
Interferring with bird-life of various 
kinds. 
On this same morning, as we walked 
up to one of the sections of the island, 
that was more or less covered with sand 
and grasses, I turned to the Colonel and 
told him to follow us. We went some .30 
or 40 yards away, where we told him 
to get busy digging. He looked up with 
a quizzical expression and said that of 
course he was soldier enough to obey 
orders immediately, although he didn’t 
know what we were after. Still he would 
do his best. It was a rather comical 
sight to see him digging away in the 
sand with both hands, and after he had 
gone down some distance, to see his arm 
slip into a cavity and see him open up 
a turtle’s nest with eighty-four fresh 
turtle eggs which came as a real deli- 
cacy for our table. 
The large green sea-turtle nests on 
these islands and is very careful to 
smooth over the sand and to eliminate, 
as far as possible, all of its tracks in 
order to prevent discovery of its nest, 
but in place after place, we found where 
the same old coons to which I referred 
before, had discovered and robbed the 
turtle nests, as well as the bird nests. 
O N three different occasions, we saw 
some birds which some of us were 
unable to identify promptly, and in 
one instance, a pair of birds which one of 
us had never seen before. The Colonel im- 
mediately reached into his pocket, got out 
his memorandum book, noted the circum- 
stances and the varieties of the birds, but 
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