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is that offered by the distribution of the in this neighborhood, the rhinoceros seemed 
square-mouthed rhinoceros. It is almost to spend the heat of the day in sleep, and 
as if our bison had never been known within to feed in the morning and evening, and 
historic times except in Texas and Ecuador, perhaps .throughout the night; and to drink 
This great rhinoceros 
v/as formerly plentiful in 
South Africa south of the 
Zambesi, where it has 
been completely exter¬ 
minated except for a 
score or so of individ¬ 
uals on a game reserve. 
North of the Zambesi it 
was and is utterly un¬ 
known, save that during 
the last ten years it has 
been found to exist in 
several localities on the 
left bank of the Upper 
Nile, close to the river, 
and covering a north and 
south extension of about 
two hundred miles. 
Even in this narrow 
ribbon of territory the 
square-mouthed rhinoc¬ 
eros is found only in cer¬ 
tain localities, and al¬ 
though there has not 
hitherto been much 
slaughter of the mighty 
beast, it would certainly 
be well if all killing of 
it were prohibited until 
careful inquiry has been 3 
made as to its numbers 
and exact distribution. 
It is a curious animal, 
on the average distinctly 
larger than, and utterly 
different from, the ordi¬ 
nary African rhinoceros. 
The spinal processes of 
the dorsal vertebrae are 
so developed as to make 
a Very prominent hump Rhino of the usual type with prehensile lip, shot in the Sotik by Mr. Roosevelt 
over the withers, while (The differences of the two types are shown in the above photographs.) 
forward of this is a still I ’ rom a P h ° to g ra P h b v Kemut Roosevelt, 
higher and more prom¬ 
inent fleshy hump on the neck. The huge, in the evening and morning, usually at 
misshapen head differs in all respects as some bay or inlet of the river. In the 
widely from the head of the common or morning they walked away from the water 
so-called black rhinoceros as the head of for an hour or two, until they came to a 
a moose differs from that of a wapiti. place which suited them for the day’s sleep. 
The morning after making camp we Unlike the ordinary rhinoceros, the square- 
started on a rhinoceros hunt. At this time mouthed rhinoceros feeds exclusively on 
