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THE FAUNA OF SOMALILAND 
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among the bushes we found the jaw-bones, with the grinders 
still embedded in them. The Somalis said this was all that was 
left, because the Esa Musa cattle and the koodoo had eaten all 
the soft parts of the bones. 
SOMALI RH I N OCE ROS(Ithinoceros bicornis). 
The Black Rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros bicornis) 
Native name. Wiyil 
For years the black rhinoceros has been known to exist in 
the interior of Somaliland ; and going farther in every year, I 
have been expecting to come to its ground. The first SomMi 
rhinoceroses were shot by my brother and myself in our 
Abyssinian border-trip in August 1892, and since then but few 
have been bagged by Europeans. They come far north of the 
range of the zebras, sometimes wandering as far towards the 
coast as the grass-plains of Toyo, a hundred miles south of 
