Renshaw, G., 1904. Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Black Rhino |
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A number of long slender horns were sent some years ago by the late Mr. F. Holmwood and assigned to a hypothetical Rhinoceros holmwoodi. They have not only been supposed to indicate a species allied to the white rhinoceros but the holmwoodi horn now exhibited in the mammal gallery of the Natural History Museum certainly recalls the long anterior horn of the veritable simus figured in Campbell's Travels. Attempts have been made to associate R. holmwoodi with the black rhinoceros, but they seem to have been initiated prior to Major Gibbons' discovery in in 1900, before which date simus was unknown in East and North East Africa.
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