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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
HIPPOPOTAMID^ 
HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
Hipjiopotamus, LinnseuSj Syst. Nat. x. 1758, p. 74. 
Form very massive and unwieldy. Skin practically hairless. Muzzle very broad and 
rounded. Feet short and broad, with four subequal toes, with short, rounded hoofs, 
all reaching the ground when walking. Ears small; tail short. The legs also are so 
short that the belly is raised but a little distance above the ground. 
Dentition : i. c. p pm. m. 3 = 38 or 42. 
Incisors and canines' not rooted, but continuously grovring. The crowns of the 
molars, when worn, showing trefoil-shaped pattern of dentine. 
The dental formula i. | belongs to the Pigmy Hippopotamus {E. liberiensis) 
only. 
Hippopotamus amphibius, Linn. 
Hippopotamus amphibius, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 1758, p. 74. 
At the present day the Hippopotamus is not found within the area treated of 
in this book, but it has disappeared only since firearms have become plentiful. 
The hippopotamus of the Nile has been mentioned by most of the old writers. 
Diodorus Siculus (liv. i. p. 42, Wesseling Amstel. 1745) gives a very fairly accurate 
description of the animal. 
This animal is supposed to be the “ Behemoth ” of Job, and it goes by this name at 
the present day in the Hebrew language. 
Dr. Anderson had the following note on a specimen preserved in the Frankfort 
Museum:— 
“ ^. Nubia, Ruppell, 1825. 
“ This is probably the specimen, the killing of which Ruppell describes in his ‘ Reisen 
in Nubien, &c.’ 
“ Total length of skeleton, premaxillaries to end of pelvis, 3 m. 305 mm. Height 
from apex of spinous process of 1st dorsal, 2 m. 400 mm.” 
In Buffon’s Hist. Nat. vol. xii. 1764, p. 24, will be found an account of the capture 
of two of these animals in the Delta near Damietta, by Federico Zerenghi, Surgeon, 
