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exactly as with many black rhinos (although it is some¬ 
times stated that this does not occur in the case of the 
white rhino). We preserved the head-skin and skull for 
the National Museum. 
The flesh of this rhino, especially the hump, proved 
excellent. It is a singular thing that scientific writers seem 
almost to have overlooked, and never lay any stress upon, 
the existence of this neck hump. It is on the neck, forward 
of the long dorsal vertebra, and is very conspicuous in 
the living animal; and I am inclined to think that some 
inches of the exceptional height measurements attributed 
to South African white rhinos may be due to measuring 
to the top of this hump. I am also puzzled by what seems 
to be the great inferiority in horn development of these 
square-mouthed rhinos of the Lado to the square-mouthed 
or white rhinos of South Africa (and, by the way, I may 
mention that on the whole these Lado rhinos certainly 
looked lighter colored, when we came across them stand¬ 
ing in the open, than did their prehensile-lipped East Afri¬ 
can brethren). We saw between thirty and forty square¬ 
mouthed rhinos in the Lado, and Kermit’s cow had much 
the longest horn of any of them; and while they averaged 
much better horns than the black rhinos we had seen in East 
Africa, between one and two hundred in number, there 
were any number of exceptions on both sides. There are 
recorded measurements of white rhino horns from South 
Africa double as long as our longest from the Lado. Now 
this is, scientifically, a fact of some importance, but it is of 
no consequence whatever when compared with the question 
as to what, if any, the difference is between the average 
horns; and this last fact is very difficult to ascertain, largely 
