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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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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan |
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Distribution - Records |
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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 Gibbons near Lado on the Upper Nile, about 5 deg. N.lat, as already recorded by Thomas in Nature. No authentic evidence of the existence of this species north of the zambesi river had been previously produced. - Lado, on west bank of Nile, 5.2 N, 31.41 E
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