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ceeded the rear one being considered the common species 
and those having the two horns of nearly equal size being 
the keitloa race. These distinctions, however, have long 
since been abandoned, and to-day a single form is recog¬ 
nized throughout the greater part of Africa and another 
smaller one in the desert region of East Africa and Soma¬ 
liland. The horns everywhere show great diversity of 
shape and no dependence for racial characters can be 
assigned to them. This is owing, in a measure, to their 
being skin structures solely without any definite connection 
with the bony structure of the skull. They thus have great 
freedom of form and position and show decided variation 
in number at times. Three-horned specimens are occasion¬ 
ally met with, and a five-horned one has recently been re¬ 
corded. This one is described by Rowland Ward in his 
well-known “Records of Big Game/’ who quotes the original 
discoverer to the effect that besides the two front horns the 
three rear horns which follow are good-sized, the shortest 
being nine inches long, but they are not all in line; some 
spring laterally from the bases of the others. 
Speke and Grant met with great numbers of black 
rhinoceroses in Karagwe, just west of the Victoria Nyanza 
and south of the Uganda boundary in what is now German 
territory. Besides the black species they fancied that the 
white also inhabited this district, and they referred certain 
long-horned specimens of the black to that species. In 
their account of the game animals met with they state 
accurately the well-known difference in the shape of the 
lips in the two rhinoceroses, but give a figure of a typical 
pointed-lipped rhinoceros head as that of a white specimen. 
The same region was visited by Stanley some years later, 
and he also gives an account of the great numbers of rhi¬ 
noceroses met with and the killing of several for food. He 
refers to some of the specimens as white, his statement re¬ 
ferring merely to their color, he being apparently quite 
unaware of the existence of the species to which sportsmen 
have applied the name “white / 5 Since these early days 
several sportsmen well acquainted with the distinguishing 
characters of the two species have visited Karagwe and 
have found only the black species in the district. 
The black rhinoceros of East Africa is occasionally re- 
