Diceros bicornis. The rhinoceros is nearly extinct in the eastern Sudan.
In the days of Sir Samuel Baker they were plentiful in the upper Atbara and the Setit, but now apparently there are extremely few between the Nile and the Abyssinian border.
At present time thety are quite gone from the Blue Nile.
A very few remain on the uppermost reaches of the Dinder River, about a day's march beyond Um Org island, as our native hunters told us. According to our Arab guide, who had hunted this region, one was killed in 1911 on the `mere' near El Abiad by a white hunter who mistook it a night for a buffalo. Beyond Um Orug, at a place called Hageirat, south towards the Abyssinian border, a few are still to be found. Capt. Stanley S. Flower told us at Cairo that so far as he could learn there were probably not more than 10 or a dozen left on the upper Dinder, and these are probably not breeding for the natives report no tracks of young ones.
Specimens shot on Cheringangi Hills, Kenya, at 6000-7000 feet.
Adults from Kenya. Tail vertebrae length, male 660 mm, females 497 and 560 mm.
Adults from Kenya. Body length, Male 3560 mm, females 3305 and 3355 mm
