Anterior horn. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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.
The front horn of R. simus may always be distinguished from the corresponding horn of R. bicornis by its broad, flattened surface at the base in front, the basal front of this horn in R. bicornis being more or less smooth and rounded and projecting in the centre.
Illustrates front horn of white rhino shot near Lado, Sudan, measuring 31 inches in a straight line from the base to the end.
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