 Reference Base  The great Rift Valley, being the narrative of a journey t... |
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Gregory, J.W., 1896. The great Rift Valley, being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, with some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology, and future prospects of British East Africa. London, John Murray, pp. i-xxi, 1-422
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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Saw rhino at Laikipia. They differed from the ordinary rhinoceros, not only in colour, but in the bluntness of the head and in the shape of the horn. I reported this as soon as I returned to England, and before having read von H?hnel's statement that Count Teleki had killed a white rhinoceros a little to the N.E. of Lake Baringo; nor did I then know that a horn (now in the B.M.0 smilar to those of the rhinoceros I saw in Laikipia, had been brought by a native caravan from this district, and described by Dr. Sclater as a new species, R. holmwoodi. Reports of a similar animal have been received from Loango.
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