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Title: The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata
Author(s): Sclater, W.L.
Year published: 1900
Publisher: London, R.H. Porter
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Museums
Black Rhino
Mounted hide, skeleton. Locality: Mashonaland. Collected by: Mr. Harvey Brown, 1894. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Museums
White Rhino
Mounted skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, north of the Ayrshire mine near Mazoe, in northeast Mashonaland. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Hide. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Skin. Locality: South Africa, Zululand. In coll. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Skull. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Gibbons, Major A.St.Hill. In coll. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
White Rhino
Umkombe
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
white rhino in general. LITERATURE. - Parsons, Phil. Trans. (1743) pl. iii, fig 6, horn figured; Barrow (1801), i, p. 395, supposed occurrence in Namaqualand; Campbell (1822) p. 294, figures head of one shot at `Mashow' in Bechuanaland; Burchell (1822), ii, p. 75, allusion to discovery; ...
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
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African Rhino Species
In Harris and Cumming's time (1838-45), rhinoceroses were still quite common in Bechuanaland, but now they are extinct both there and probably also in Rhodesia.
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
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White Rhino
Ceratotherium simum. The male head preserved in the South African Museum was obtained by Mr. Selous in 1882, between the Bembesi and Sebakwi Rivers, halfway between Bulawayo and Salisbury
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Names in vernacular
Black Rhino
Shangainea
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