Shortridge, G.C. 1942. Field notes on the first and second expeditions of the Cape Museum’s mammals survey of the Cape Province; and descriptions of some new subgenera and subspecies. Annals of the South African Museum 36 (1): 27-100, pls. 6-7.

Field notes on the first and second expeditions of the Cape Museum’s mammals survey of the Cape Province; and descriptions of some new subgenera and subspecies

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Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum)

Horns. Locality: Namibia, Seeheim, Great Namaqualand. Collected by: Wicham, G., 1919. In coll. Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1919

Horns. Locality: Namibia, Seeheim, Great Namaqualand. Collected by: Wicham, G., 1919. In coll. Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Note

Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1919

Horns. Locality: Namibia, Seeheim, Great Namaqualand. Collected by: Wicham, G., 1919. In coll. Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Note

Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1919

In the Port Elizabeth Museum there is a weathered pair of white rhino horns (oswellii type) discovered at seeheim, Great Namaqualand, by G. Wicham in 1919.

Note

Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum)

!Haba

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Location Museums Species White Rhino (simum) Year 1900

Although Diceros bicornis was always, presumably, more plentiful than Ceratotherium simum south of the Orange River, !Haba, the Hottentot name, still locally surviving, refers correctly to the white species, an indication of its former occurrence in Little Namaqualand. Wikar met rhinoceros at Caboopfontein, Kaykoop (many of these early name-places have been lost sight of), and elsewhere in Little namaqualand.

Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Nile Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

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Field notes on the first and second expeditions of the Cape Museum’s mammals survey of the Cape Province; and descriptions of some new subgenera and subspecies