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Show -. .. - -'i . ,' Hippopotamuses The Pygmy " And the Ordinary Size raiotfowawowwrnaaMJwni t-""HBfcpjnlP "IbcM" Lower photo copyright. 1912, by American 'Press Association. Upper photo 1 copyright by Underwood & Underwood. 1 A PAIR of pygmy hlppopotnmuscs has been acquired by the New York A Zoological park nt a cost of $12,000. They are the first pygmy hip- ; popotnmuscs to bo exhibited, tho pygmy, nnlmnl having been regarded J aa almost mythical. Thoy were captured In Liberia by an Intrepid mJK hunter and explorer In a country reeking with cnnnlbnls. An ordlnnry hippo- H potnmua will weigh moro than 0,000 pounds nnd menuuro some eleven feet In H circumference and twelve feet In length. The malo of theso pygmy hippo- aH potnmutK'B weighs 410 pounds, Is thirty Inches high at the shoulders, seventy H i '" "i in as,,-, iiMimiiin,)i ii ihio lain null iii.iiii j 1 1 ti i 1 1 innnnnnnnnnnn weighs 170 pounds. Tho skull of the pygmy Is moro convex or rounded on its H upper surface, Its legs are longer and moro slender In proportion, and Its eyes do not protrude Hko thoso of tho giant species. Tho fnco of tho pygmy is rein- aaflB tlvely smaller thnu that of tho largo species. Tho lower Jaw bears only f.wo "TU Incisors, whllo tho large Bpecles hns four. The eyes are not set bb high In the II bend of tbo small animal us In tho largo one. n |