TPIE WHITE RHINOCEROS I4I 



I. A calf obtained in 1836 by Sir Andrew Smith's 

 expedition. This animal was mounted by the 

 celebrated taxidermist, Jules Verreaux, under Sir 

 Andrew's personal superintendence, and added to 

 the South African Museum at Capetown. Subse- 

 quently it was either sold to or received in exchange 

 by the British Museum trustees, as the animal 

 figures in the British Museum Catalogue of 1843. 

 This specimen is now at the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington. Dr, Gray called it a 

 "half-grown calf." It appears to be about three 

 years old. The anterior horn measures 3^ inches, 

 the posterior one inch. As mounted, the animal's 

 hide is dull black, paling to brownish black beneath. 

 The existence of this specimen is emphasised, as 

 in the various articles which have been from time 

 to time written on R. simus, it has almost invariably 

 been overlooked. This is not the animal figured 

 on plate XIX. of Smith's " Illustrations of South 

 African Zoology," as will be seen from the horns 

 and from the measurements given in the book : 

 these belong to an older animal. The young 

 specimen will, however, be found figured under 

 the title of "African Rhinoceros" as fig. -^11 ^ '^^ 

 the " Museum of Animated Nature " — the square 

 lip, slit-like nostrils, position of eye, and the 

 semi-tubular ears all being correctly given, whilst 

 the older animal — a fine example — is also depicted 

 as fig, 388 of the same work, under the ambiguous 

 title of "two-horned rhinoceros." 



