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Sclater, P.L., 1903. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan |
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Distribution - Records |
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White Rhino |
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The horn of an example of R. simus, which I now exhibit [and also on fig. 21], was obtained by my friend Capt. Claude Hawker (Commander of the 10 th Soudanese Bataillon) from the Belgian officers at Lado in the autumn of 1902, and was taken from a specimen unquestionably shot in that district, on the left bank of the White Nile. The Belgians did not distinguish it from R. bicornis, and seemed to believe that all rhinos in that district belong to one species. The present specimen is a front horn of R. simus - it agrees well with the front horn of the mounted specimen of R. simus in the gallery of the British Museum.
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