existence white rhino. That a rhino of this group [R. simus] existed in Central Africa had been suspected before. Dr. Gregory in `The Great Rift valley' mentions having seen in Leikipia, but failed to shoot, three specimens which he believed to be R. simus. Some years earlier Count Teleki shot a `White rhinoceros' in the same district. Maybe however these belonged to R. bicornis.
Major A.St. Hill Gibbons shot on the upper Nile, near lado, a rhinoceros which he considered to be the white rhinoceros (R. simus). The skull can be identified as Rhinoceros simus.
Existence white rhino. That a rhino of this group [R. simus] existed in Central Africa had been suspected before. Dr. Gregory in `The Great Rift valley' mentions having seen in Leikipia, but failed to shoot, three specimens which he believed to be R. simus. Some years earlier Count Teleki shot a `White rhinoceros' in the same district. Maybe however these belonged to R. bicornis.
The discovery of Ceratotherium simum in the Nile watershed brings it geographically nearer to its European and Siberian ally, the Pleistocene R. antiquitatis, both species being in turn, no doubt, offshoots of the Pliocene R. platyrhinus of the Siwaliks.
