244 RHINOCEROS SIMUS. 



Height at shoulders 148 



» » crupper 146.5 



Circumference of the body 318 



As to the name lohite Rhinoceros for our species, Mr. 

 Selous, 1. c. p. 192, remarks: »the white and black species 

 both are of a sort of dark slate-colour ; and so far from 

 one being white and the other black, I should be sorry 

 to state upon oath which was the darker of the two." 

 Smith (Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa) called 

 the colour of Rh. simus pale broccoli-brown , of Rh. hicor- 

 nis pale yellowish brown and of Rh. keitloa (perhaps = 

 bicornis) pale brownish yellow. 



Sir Samuel Baker (Wild Beasts and their Ways , 1890, 

 Vol. II , p. 88) says that the great Rhinoceros (Rh. simus) 

 is distinguished by its pale colour. A very acceptable 

 suggestion has been made by Mr. W. Drummond (P. Z. S. 

 L. 1876, p. 110): »the distinction of the black and white 

 seems to me misleading and misapplied , all Rhinoceroses 

 being of the same colour , namely a peculiar shade of 

 brown or if any difference does exist , it being in Rh. bicor- 

 nis minor possessing a tinge of red all such cases 



may be referred to outward circumstances , such as the 

 position of the sun , or the kind of mud they may have 

 been rolling in last, and partly, no doubt to the age and 

 sex of the animal. I may mention that I have watched a 

 bull of Rh. simus trotting past me in the full glare of 

 the midday sun , and it has appeared to me almost white ; 

 while after following the same animal up and finding it 

 feeding with the long shadows of evening on it, its co- 

 lour has then seemed to be, as it really is, a deep brown." 

 The adult female in the Leyden Museum is labeled »de 

 la partie inférieure de la Colonic du Cap." The flat skin 

 is without locality and has been presented to our Museum 

 in the year 1879 by his Excellency the Minister for the 

 home department. 



NB. There is another very interesting animal which 



JN'otes from tlae Leyden. JMuseum , Vol. X.U.. 



