 Reference Base  On additions to the Society's Menagerie, and report on Le... |
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Sclater, P.L., 1868. On additions to the Society's Menagerie, and report on Leconte's expedition to the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 November 12: 526-530, pl. 41
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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Purchased 11 Sep 1868, a young male Rhinoceros bicornis. Purchased for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, originally captured on 12 Feb 1868 by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, an enterprising traveller of Vienna.
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