| Lydekker, R. 1916 Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), vol 5: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Proboscidea (elephants) with addenda to the earlier volumes. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. 46-58 |
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White Rhino
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| Mounted skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Roosevelt, Col. Theodore. In National Museum, Washington, USA. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1916 Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), vol 5: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Proboscidea (elephants) with addenda to the earlier volumes. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. 46-58 |
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White Rhino
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| Mounted skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Roosevelt, Col. Theodore. In National Museum, Washington, USA. |
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| Bequaert, J. 1916 Parasitic muscid larvae collected from the African elephant and the white rhinoceros by the Congo expeditions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35: 377-387, figs. 1-3 |
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White Rhino
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| The Congo Expedition collected in the same region as did Dr. Rodhain numerous larve from the white rhinoceros. The label which accompanied these specimens bore the note ?Faradje, Feb. 3 and 5, 1912, from Rhinoceros; most of the stomach practically studded.' They did not differ from those which I... |
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| Bequaert, J. 1916 Parasitic muscid larvae collected from the African elephant and the white rhinoceros by the Congo expeditions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35: 377-387, figs. 1-3 |
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White Rhino
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| In 1914 my good friend Dr J. Rodhain, who by his patient researches has contributed very largely to the progress of African parasitology, succeeded in rearing a number of imagoes from gastric larvae collected from Rhinoceros simus cottoni in the Uele district (northeastern Congo). |
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| Allen, G.M. 1914 Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 58: 303-357, figs. 1-3 |
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Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis. The rhinoceros is nearly extinct in the eastern Sudan. |
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| Allen, G.M. 1914 Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 58: 303-357, figs. 1-3 |
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Black Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Allen, G.M. 1914 Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 58: 303-357, figs. 1-3 |
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Black Rhino
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| At present time thety are quite gone from the Blue Nile. |
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| Allen, G.M. 1914 Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 58: 303-357, figs. 1-3 |
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Black Rhino
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| 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 buff... |
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| Schouteden, H. 1913 Notes sur la faune des mammiferes du Katanga. Revue Zoologique Africaine 2: 280-288 |
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Black Rhino
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| Collection received by Mus. Tervuren made by Mr. Sharpe in Katanga, between the english-belgian border, between 28 deg. E and 11 deg. S. One young female of Rhinoceros bicornis from the Kifumwazi River, 11 Nov. 1912. |
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| Cotton, W.B. 1912 Sport in the Eastern Sudan from Souakin to the Blue Nile . London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-x, 1-285 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| C.H.S. 1912 Distribution of the white rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 120 (3117), 1912 September 21: 628 |
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Nile Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Hornaday, W.T. 1911 Our white rhinoceros head. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 46: 782, fig. 1 |
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White Rhino
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| Head. Locality: Lado District. Collected by: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1910. In coll. New York Zoological Society, New York, USA |
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| Hornaday, W.T. 1911 Our white rhinoceros head. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 46: 782, fig. 1 |
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White Rhino
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| Head. Locality: Lado District. Collected by: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1910. In coll. New York Zoological Society, New York, USA |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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White Rhino
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| Before reaching Beit (the house of) Ali I came upon a rhinoceros. We saw him at the end of a long glade, from the place where I had just shot a waterbuck. There was a strict order against killing rhinoceros unless they charges. I do not think that I quite kept the spirit of the regulation, for... |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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| At the edge of the pool was the track of rhinoceros, accentuated by the scars he rips along the path as he walks. Natives are convinced that he does this with his horn, which, being of the nature of matted hair and not joined to the bone of the head, they maintain hangs over his nose like a busb... |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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| My men pointed out rhinoceros and lion, but I could not distinguish either. On going on, the tracks of rhinoceros and giraffe were everywhere. |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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African Rhino Species
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| At the edge of the pool was the track of rhinoceros, accentuated by the scars he rips along the path as he walks. Natives are convinced that he does this with his horn, which, being of the nature of matted hair and not joined to the bone of the head, they maintain hangs over his nose like a busb... |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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White Rhino
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| Before reaching Beit (the house of) Ali I came upon a rhinoceros. We saw him at the end of a long glade, from the place where I had just shot a waterbuck. There was a strict order against killing rhinoceros unless they charges. |
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| Comyn, D.C.E.ff. 1911 Service & sport in the Sudan: a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with some intervals of sport and travel. London, John Lane and New York, John Lane Co, pp. i-xxiii, 1-331 |
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| Travelling from Kafiakingo to Hofrat el Nahas - SW Sudan. I passed the fresh tracks of lion, elephant, rhinoceros, and giraffe. From J. Siomo - near it I put up a rhinoceros in a bamboo brake. |
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| Bland-Sutton, J. 1911 Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. London, MacMillan and Co, pp. i-xii, 1-419 |
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| In the south-west of Kordofan the natives have a tradition that anyone who drinks out of a cup made from a rhinoceros horn never gets sick. |
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| Meldon, J.A. 1910 The Latuka and Bari languages. Journal of the Royal African Society 9 (34): 193-195 |
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Black Rhino
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| Rhinoceros is called Mou? by the Latuka. |
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| Meldon, J.A. 1910 The Latuka. Journal of the Royal African Society 9 (35): 270-274, pl. 1, map 1 |
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Black Rhino
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| Some 80 miles east of the Nile, about midway between Gondokoro and Nimule, there is a long and narrow va;;ey which stretches north and south. This valley is watered by the river Kos and is the home of the Latuka.
The plains were well stocked with game, which included large herds of roan antelop... |
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| Fothergill, E. 1910 Five years in the Sudan. London, Hurst and Blackett, pp. i-xvi, 1-327 |
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| No details available yet |
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| Bryden, H.A. 1910 Big game shooting in the Sudan. Badminton magazine of sports & pastimes (n.s.) 31 (184): 556-570 |
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| No details available yet |
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| Tangye, H.L. 1910 In the torrid Sudan. Boston, Richard G. Badger |
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| No details available yet |
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| Trouessart, E.-L. 1909 Le rhinoceros blanc du Soudan (rhinoceros simus cottoni). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909 February 16: 198-200 |
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White Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Lydekker, R. 1908 The white rhinoceros [description of Rhinoceros simus cottoni]. Field 111 (2878), 1908 February 22: 319 |
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White Rhino
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| Major Powell-Cotton has just presented to the Natural History Museum the skull and horns of a male white rhinoceros killed by him in the Lado District of Equatorial Central Africa. The skull indicates an immature animal, the last upper molar tooth on each side not having yet come into use, while... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1908 The white rhinoceros [description of Rhinoceros simus cottoni]. Field 111 (2878), 1908 February 22: 319 |
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White Rhino
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| Skull, horns, immature. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1908 The white rhinoceros [description of Rhinoceros simus cottoni]. Field 111 (2878), 1908 February 22: 319 |
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White Rhino
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| Skull, horns, immature. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Powell-Cotton. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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| Johnston, H.H. 1908 George Grenfell and the Congo: a history and description of the Congo independent state and adjoining districts of Congoland together with some account of the native places and their languages, the fauna and flora; and similar notes on the Cameroons and. London, Hutchinson and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xxiii, 1-496; vol. 2, pp. i-xx, 497-990 |
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Black Rhino
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| Rhino is found within the basin of the Lualaba, below its junction with the Luapala, and also between the Lualaba and SW Tanganyika. [Lualaba River, S.E. Congo, Junction with Luapala River, 6.43 S, 26.56 E] |
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| Trouessart, E.-L. 1908 Le rhinoceros blanc, retrouve au Soudan, est la licorne des anciens. Compte Rendu des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 147: 1352-1355 |
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White Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Trouessart, E.-L. 1908 Le rhinoceros blanc du Bahr-el-Gazal. La Nature, revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et a l'industrie 37: 50-53, figs. 1-2 |
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White Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Mihri, M. 1908 Sudan seyahatnamesi [in Turkish]. Istanbul |
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Nile Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Powell Cotton, P.H.G. 1907 A journey through the eastern portion of the Congo State. Geographical Journal, London 30 (4): 371-384, figs. 1-7 |
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White Rhino
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| Expedition eastern portion Congo. The chief scientific results of the journey include: several good specimens of the northern white rhino. |
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| Yuzbashi 1905 Tribes on the upper Nile: the Bari. Journal of the Royal African Society 4 (14): 226-231 |
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| [Among the Bari tribe, living in the country round Gondokoro and Bejai.] The Bari to-day number some 30,000 or more, and the population is increasing. I have many pleasant memories of days passed in this part of the country. Elephants, rhino, lion, and leopard are numerous, and the natives are... |
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| Gleichen, A.E.W. 1905 The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan Government. London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, vol. 1, pp. i-xiii, 1-371 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| Delme Radcliffe, C. 1904 Notices on the game in the Nile province and in South-Western Uganda. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire 1: 58-64 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 |
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White Rhino
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| Horn. Locality: Sudan. In coll. Col. B.T. Mahom, United Kingdom. |
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| Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 |
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White Rhino
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| Fairly numerous on the northern boundary of the Congo Free State and in the adjacent parts of the Soudan. |
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| Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 |
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White Rhino
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| Fairly numerous on the northern boundary of the Congo Free State and in the adjacent parts of the Soudan. |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 |
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White Rhino
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| 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... |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 |
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Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 |
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History
White Rhino
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| Exhibits front horn from Soudan, property of Col. B.T. Mahom, length 36 1/4 inches. Mr Rowland ward had known of these horns coming from that district for many years before Major Gibbons secured his specimen. |
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| Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum cottoni . Horn property of B.Y. Mahom from Soudan. Measured along the anterior curve 36 1/4 inches, circumference at the base 19 3/4 inches |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| 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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| Anonymous 1903 Large rhinoceros horn from the Soudan. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 102 (2656), 1903 November 21: 884 |
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Nile Rhino
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| No details available yet |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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White Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Gibbons, Major A.St.Hill. In coll. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA. |
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| Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 |
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White Rhino
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| Skull. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Gibbons, Major A.St.Hill. In coll. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA. |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1900 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull and horns of the square-mouthed rhinoceros and mounted heads of two antelopes obtained by Major AStH Gibbons on the Upper Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 December 4: 949 |
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White Rhino
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| Major A.St. Hill Gibbons had exhibited a fine collection of heads at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on 10 Dec 1900. He lent them for exhibition at the zoo's meeting on 18 dec. The first was a skull and horns of the square-mouthed rhinoceros (Rhinoceros simus ?) Shot by Major Gibbon... |
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| Thomas, O. 1900 The white rhinoceros on the upper Nile. Nature 62 (1616), October 18, 1900: 599 |
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White Rhino
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| 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. |
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| Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 |
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White Rhino
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| African rhino on the M'Boma. |
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| Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 |
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Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| African rhino on the Manyema. |
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| Burrows, G. 1898 The land of the pigmies. London, C. Arthur Pearson, pp. i-xxx, 1-299 |
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Black Rhino
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| Rhino on the Katanga. |
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| Prompt 1893 Sudan Nilotique. Bulletin de l'Institut Egyptien (3) 4: 1-116 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| Gessi, R.P. 1892 Seven years in the Soudan being a record of explorations, adventures, and campaigns against the Arab slave hunters. Collected and edited by his son Felix Gessi. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-467 |
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| The fauna of Roul Rumbek is represented by elephants, rhinoceroses, etc. |
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| Felkin, R.W. 1885 Notes on the For tribe of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8: 205-265 |
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African Rhino Species
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| Superstitions of For tribe, living in Darfur, Sudan. Cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to detect poison in water, beer, or wine, the fluid changing colour; to give one of these cups to a friend is the highest honour that can be paid to him. (I think this ideas must have been derived from... |
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| Felkin, R.W. 1885 Notes on the For tribe of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8: 205-265 |
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African Rhino Species
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| Superstitions of For tribe, living in Darfur, Sudan. Cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to detect poison in water, beer, or wine, the fluid changing colour; to give one of these cups to a friend is the highest honour that can be paid to him. (I think this ideas must have been derived from... |
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| James, F.L. 1884 The wild tribes of the Soudan: an account of travel and sport chiefly in the Bas? country, being personal experiences and adventures during three winters spent in the Soudan. London, J.Murray, pp. i-xiii, 1-273 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| Cameron, V.L. 1877 Across Africa. London, Daldy, Isbister and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xvi, 1-389 |
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White Rhino
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| Jan. 1874 at S. Ngombe. I was in front and happened unfortunately to be without my gun, when a huge white rhinoceros waddled past me, grunting. He failed to notice me. [Ngombe, ? 2.26 N, 27.44 E] |
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| Antinori; Piaggia 1870 The negro tribes of the Upper Nile and the Njamnjams. Anthropological Review 8 (28): 91-93 |
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African Rhino Species
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| No details available yet |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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Black Rhino
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| From the upper Kosanga River I received horns which probably belong to R. africanus. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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All Rhino Species
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| Chardid |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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| In the region of the White Nile two species of rhinoceros would occur: one the common black rhinoceros R. africanus, the other the probably lighter R. simus. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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| Ainazah |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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| Om qarn |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382 |
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White Rhino
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| We have horns of 3 1/3 feet length, which should belong to R. simus. |
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| Petherick, J.; Petherick, Mrs. 1869 Travels in Central Africa, and explorations of the Western Nile tributaries. London, Tinsley Brothers, vol. 1, pp. i-xx, 1-332; vol. 2, pp. i-xv, 1-272 |
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| Sclater, P.L. 1868 On additions to the Society's Menagerie, and report on Leconte's expedition to the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 November 12: 526-530, pl. 41 |
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Black Rhino
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| Purchased 11 Sep 1868, a young male Rhinoceros bicornis. Purchased for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, originally captured on 12 Feb 1868 by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, an enterprising traveller of Vienna. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 |
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Black Rhino
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| Opsiceros bicornis
The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 |
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Black Rhino
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| Opsiceros bicornis. The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 |
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Black Rhino
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| Opsiceros bicornis.
The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 |
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White Rhino
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| Opsiceros simus. On the Bahr-el-abiad, this is the common species, of which Heuglin obtained horns up to 3 3/4 feet length. |
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| Heuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611 |
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White Rhino
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| Opsiceros simus. A young animal from Albana near Galabat, which Heuglin had alive for one day, seems to belong to this species judging from the colour and the horns. |
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| Sclater, P.L.; Speke, J.H. 1864 On the mammals collected and observed by Capt J.H. Speke during the East African expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 March 8: 98-106, pls. 12-13 |
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Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros is very common throughout the whole country we traversed, down to Gondokoro. - Gondokoro, east bank of Nile, 4.54 N, 31.40 E |
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| Petherick, J. 1861 Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the regions of the Equator. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, pp. i-xii, 1-482 |
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| Aucapitaine, H. 1858 Notes sur la faune du Soudan. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale Zoologique d'Acclimatation 5: 240-244 |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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African Rhino Species
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| The rhinoceros occurs in Libtako. |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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African Rhino Species
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| After leaving Bata, in a village called Atmartschari. Here I saw for the first time the tracks of rhinoceros, which hardly occurs in all western parts of the Sudan with a few exceptions. It is much feared by the locals. |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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| Barkadjan |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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| Kargadan |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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| Birni |
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| Barth, H. 1857 Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika in den Jahren 1849 bis 1855: Tagebuch seiner im Auftrag der Brittischen Regierung unternommene Reise. Gotha, Justus Perthes, vol. 3, pp. i-xi, 1-612 |
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| Ngirme |
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| St. John, Bayle 1854 Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (the black kingdoms of Central Africa), abridged from the French. London, Chapman and Hall, pp. i-xvi, 1-336 |
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| Castelnau, F. de 1851 Sur les Niams-Niams ou hommes a queue. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (4) 2: 25-27 |
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| From Kano, one travels through Booche and Gourzoum to reach Lanchandon. This region is full of tigers, giraffe, elephants, rhinoceros and wild camels. |
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| Cherubini, S. 1847 Nubie. Paris, Didot |
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| Combes, E. 1846 Voyage en Egypte, en Nubie, dans les deserts de Beyouda, des Bicharys et sur les cotes de la mer Rouge. Paris, Desessart |
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Black Rhino
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| Mohamed el Tounsy 1845 Voyage au Darfour. Paris, B. Duprat |
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| Africa/Soudan/Darfour ( 8-16°N 24-28°E ? ) - 1803 - Chasse et vente aux trafiquants de cornes et peaux de rhinos ( p. 303/304 ) - probablement dans l'W et SW du Darfour - (CARINO No. 512 - Reference and note contributed by CARINO (Dr Henri Carpentier, Ingénieur Civil des Mines), 2011) |
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| Burckhardt, J.L. 1822 Travels in Nubia, 2nd ed. London, John Murray, pp. i-v, i-xcviii, 1-498 |
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African Rhino Species
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| Between Katakou and Bahr el Ghazal flows the great river called Shary. There is an animal called Om Kergay, said to be as large as the rhinoceros, with very small head and mouth, but harmless. Its banks are inhabited by elephant, rhinoceroses, lions and giraffes. |
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| Burckhardt, J.L. 1822 Travels in Nubia, 2nd ed. London, John Murray, pp. i-v, i-xcviii, 1-498 |
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African Rhino Species
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| Between Katakou and Bahr el Ghazal flows the great river called Shary. There is an animal called Om Kergay, said to be as large as the rhinoceros, with very small head and mouth, but harmless. |
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| Seetzen, U.J. 1809 Nachrichten von dem Negerlande Fur (Dar Fur). Monatliche Correspondenz zur Beforderung der Erd- und Himmelskunde 19: 429-465 |
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| Browne, W.G. 1800 Nouveau voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte, la Syrie, le Dar-four, ou aucun europeen n'avoit penetre, fait depuis les anneees 1792 jusqu'en 1798. Paris, Dentu, vol. 2 |
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Black Rhino
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| Browne, W.G. 1799 Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798. London, T.Cadell Jr. and W. Davies, pp. i-xxxviii, 1-496 |
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African Rhino Species
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| [Empire of Fur in Sudan]
[261] The horn of the rhinoceros, to which animal the Arabs have applied a term somewhat less appropriate from the Greek, but still characteristic (Abu-kurn, father of the one horn) makes a valuable article of trade, and is carried to Egypt, where it is sold at ... |
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| Forskal, P. 1775 Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium: quae in itinere orientali observavit, post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr ; adjuncta est materia medica Kahirina atque tabula Maris Rubri geographia. Hauniae, pp. i-xxxiv, 1-164 |
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