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| Title: |
Note on remarkable rhinoceros horn |
| Author(s): |
Ward, R.; Lydekker, R. |
| Year published: |
1912 |
| Journal: |
Field, the country gentleman's magazine |
| Volume: |
119 (3082), 1912 January 20 |
| Pages: |
144, fig. 1 |
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Museums - Europe
Museums
White Rhino
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| Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Museums
White Rhino
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| Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Horn. Locality: Uganda. Collected by: Mr Doggett. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The accompanying photograph represents an African rhinoceros horn, belonging to Hon. Walter Rothschild, which seems to have the characters of both Rhinoceros simus and Rhinoceros bicornis. Three inches from its base the horn has almost a flat front surface like simus, but within 2 feet of the ti... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| So far as I can glean there appears to be no evidence that the black species is a native of the Lado Enclave, no horns being recorded in Mr Ward's book from that district, while apparaently no mention of the occurrence of the species in Lado is made by Major Powell-Cotton in his volume Unknown Af... |
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World
Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The specimen combines characters usually considered as respectively distinctive of simus and bicornis. In the form of the roughened base, which presents a sub-circular section, it approximates, for instance, to the bicornis type while above this it presents the flattened front surface characteri... |
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Africa
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| The accompanying photograph represents an African rhinoceros horn, belonging to Hon. Walter Rothschild, which seems to have the characters of both Rhinoceros simus and Rhinoceros bicornis. Three inches from its base the horn has almost a flat front surface like simus, but within 2 feet of the ti... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Horns of the holmwoodi type, which Dr Trouessart assigned to simus cottoni, are, as I have previously shown in The Field, referable to the black species. As to the Paris specimen assigned by trouessart to the female of the Lado white rhinoceros, I can say nothing definite as I do not know its hi... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Specimen from Uganda in Tring, coll. Rothschild
Three inches from its base the horn has almost a flat front surface like simus, but within 2 feet of the tip is circular like bicornis; length in front curve 43 ? inches, circumference at base 22 inches, weight 10 lb. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
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White Rhino
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| Specimen from Uganda in Tring, coll. Rothschild. Three inches from its base the horn has almost a flat front surface like simus, but within 2 feet of the tip is circular like bicornis; length in front curve 43 ? inches, circumference at base 22 inches, weight 10 lb. |
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Note on remarkable rhinoceros horn
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