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File AvailableRenshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often much worn by repeated contact with the ground when its owner grazes: this is well seen in the type kabaoba horn which Col. Steele presented to the British Museum many years ago. The kabaoba was long described a...
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Rhinoceros simus, Burchell, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 96 (1817); A.Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii, p. 179 (1834) ; id. Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm. pl. xix (1839); Drummond, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p.109; Buckley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 280; Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 725 [...
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324
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Synonyms of Rhinoceros bicornis. Rhinoceros unicornis var. bicornis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 104 (1766). Rhinoceros bicornis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, p. 57 (1788); Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb. iii, p. 320 (1811); A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm. pl. ii (1838); Layard, Ca...
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File AvailableWickenburg, E. Graf 1899 Wanderungen in Ost-Afrika. Wien, Gerald and Cie, pp. i-xxi, 1-440
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In east Africa, the black rhinoceros, the form distinguished by Sclater with a very long and thin anterior horn. (Also shown on plate facing p. 352).
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File AvailableBuckland, F. 1872 A new rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Land and Water 1872 August 10: 89
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A new rhinoceros the zoological Gardens -
By the kindness of Mr Bartlett I have been enabled carefully to inspect very remarkable animal which has just been added to the collection in the zoological Gardens. It is a hairy rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Sumatrensis). This animal has never before been ...
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1854 On a new species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854 November 28: 250-251, fig. 1
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(First description Rhinoceros crossii.) The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which for many years formed part of his collection, and which he considered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded spe...
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1853 Notice of a presumed new species of rhinoceros, from South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853 (March 8): 46-47, fig. 1
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(First description of Rhinoceros oswellii). Colonel Thomas Steele having most kindly presented to the British Museum a pair of horns of a two-horned Rhinoceros, which was discovered in the interior of South Africa by his friend Mr. Oswell, Dr. Gray exhibited the horns; and having pointed out the...
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File AvailableLesson, R.P. 1842 Nouveau tableau du regne animal, Mammiferes. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, pp. i-v, 1-204
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Rhinoceros bicornis, var. C. Rhinoceros simus, Blainv.
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File AvailableThompson, G. 1827 Travels and adventures in Southern Africa, comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony with observations on the progress and prospects of the Britsih emigrants. London, Henry Colburn, pp. i-xx, 1-493
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From these wandering men, Arend and his comrade old Cupido Kackerlackie, I learned some interesting particulars ... Cupido, I found, had also accompanied Mr. Campbell on his last journey, and was the person who shot the remarkable rhinoceros, of whose head Mr. Campbell has given a drawing.
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