HIPPOPOTAMUS AMPHIBIUS.— Lin. 
Mammalia. — Plate VI. (Female, and \ oung.) 
H. capite, colli partibus superioribus, dorsoque brunneo-rubris ; corporis lateribus artibusque palhde 
brunneo-purpureo-rnbris; abdomine, labiorum lateribus, palpcbrisque pallide flavo-brumicis ; caudse 
auriunaque pilis nigris ; nasi pilis flavo-bruimeis. Oculis aurantio-brunneis. 
Loxgitudo 1 1 ped. 4 imc. 
Hippopotamus Capensis, Desmoulins. 
Behemoth of the Hebrews. 
Colour, See. — The anterior and lateral parts of the head, and the uppei 
parts of the neck and body brownish red, the former rather lightest. The 
brownish red of the back passes insensibly into a light brownish purple red, 
which is the colour of the sides and limbs ; the belly, the sides of the lips, 
and the eyelids light wood-brown, with a faint flesh-coloured blush ; the hinder 
parts of the body and the belly are freely freckled with small spots of the 
same hue as the ground colours, only of darker tints ; hairs ol tail and ears 
black ; pencils of hairs on lips, &c., yellowish brown ; eyes a clear orange- 
coloured brown : hoofs dark horn-colour. 
Form, &c.— Figure massive and very heavy, and the entire contour of the 
animal suggests to the observer the idea of a form intermediate between an 
overgrown pig and a high-fed bull, without horns and with cropped ears, 
d he head appears broad, compared with its length, and the expression of the 
face is singular and unlike that of any other animal, arising principally from the 
high position of the eyes. The lips, especially the upper one, are thick and bulg- 
ing, particularly their sides, so that when the mouth is shut even the longest of 
the teeth are concealed ; the nose is broad, and inclined to truncated, and the 
gape is very wide ; the head immediately behind the angles of the mouth is 
considerably contracted, and the forehead is broad, flat and high ; the eyes 
and ears are very small, and the former are placed before, and but little 
below the level of the latter ; the ears are extremely short, and their tips 
rounded, appearances which insensibly lead to the idea that some portion of 
them must have been cut off ; their edges are fringed with fine hair, and their 
inner surface is thinly coated with a similar material ; the eyelids are promi- 
nent and pulpy, which makes the eyes appear as if they were deeply seated, 
though, as regards the orbit, they are not in reality so. The neck is short, 
thick, and rounded ; the line of the back is slightly arched and rather undu- 
