Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom
Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom
Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom
So far as I can glean there appears to be no evidence that the black species is a native of the Lado Enclave, no horns being recorded in Mr Ward's book from that district, while apparaently no mention of the occurrence of the species in Lado is made by Major Powell-Cotton in his volume Unknown Africa. Mr Roosevelt, writing in his African Game Trails (pp. 414-415) of the white rhino in Laso contrasts it with the East African black species, as if there were none in the latter district.
The specimen combines characters usually considered as respectively distinctive of simus and bicornis. In the form of the roughened base, which presents a sub-circular section, it approximates, for instance, to the bicornis type while above this it presents the flattened front surface characteristic of the white rhinoceros. On the other hand, as the summit is approached it once more reverts to the bicornis type, expanding laterally in the manner seen in certain front horns of the black species. In this curvature it also shows a distinct approximation to the front horn of the bicornis holmwoodi type, and the one in the Paris Museum which dr trouessart has represented in plate xxix of PZSL 1909 surmounting the snout of a female of the Lado race (simus cottoni) of the white species. Horns of the holmwoodi type, which Dr Trouessart assigned to simus cottoni, are, as I have previously shown in The Field, referable to the black species.
