Hornaday, W.T., 1911. Our white rhinoceros head. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 46: 782, fig. 1
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The National Collection of Heads and Horns has received from Col. Theodore Roosevelt as a gift the mounted head of a white rhino. The specimen was shot by the donor in the Lado District, west bank of the Nile, on 28 January 1910 and was mounted by James L. Clark of New York. Its length from the crease immediately behind the ears to the end of the nose is 36 ? inches, the length of the front horn is 25 inches, and the rear horn 7 1/8 inches. The base of the front horn has a circumference of 21 inches and that of the rear is 17 inches.
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