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Title: Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile
Author(s): Sclater, P.L.
Year published: 1903
Journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume: 1903 November 3
Pages: 194-195, fig. 21
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Museums - Europe
Museums
White Rhino
Anterior horn. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
The horn of an example of R. simus, which I now exhibit [and also on fig. 21], was obtained by my friend Capt. Claude Hawker (Commander of the 10 th Soudanese Bataillon) from the Belgian officers at Lado in the autumn of 1902, and was taken from a specimen unquestionably shot in that district, on...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology - Horn
White Rhino
The front horn of R. simus may always be distinguished from the corresponding horn of R. bicornis by its broad, flattened surface at the base in front, the basal front of this horn in R. bicornis being more or less smooth and rounded and projecting in the centre.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
Illustrates front horn of white rhino shot near Lado, Sudan, measuring 31 inches in a straight line from the base to the end.
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