CHAP. XIV THE SQUARE-MOUTHED RHINOCEROS 267 



the British Museum), similar to those of the rhinoceros I saw 

 in Laikipia, had been brought by a native caravan from this 

 district, and described by Dr. Sclater as a new species, under the 

 name of R. holnnvoodi. Reports of a similar animal have been 

 received from Loango, and it is probable that these rhinoceros 

 all belong to a type once widely distributed over Africa, but 

 now dying out. The square-mouthed rhinoceros is the nearest 

 living ally of the extinct Tichorine or Woolly Rhinoceros 

 {Rhinoceros antiqiiitatis), which lived in England when this was 

 in a steppe condition at the close of the Glacial period. It is 

 interesting, therefore, to find the existing representatives of this 



Fig. 17. — A Bushman Rock-Painting of Burchell's Rhinoceros. 



species persisting in the southern region of Africa, and on the 

 high plateaux near the glaciers of Mount Kenya. 



The square-mouthed rhinoceros is often called the " White 

 Rhinoceros," as it is identified with that so described by the 

 Dutch hunters at the Cape. The two specimens recently shot 

 by Mr. Coryndon and sent to England, as also that obtained 

 by Mr. A. Eyre in 1895, and now in the Museum at Cape 

 Town, are as dark as the common species. In a discussion at 

 the Zoological Society Dr. Giinther made the very plausible 

 suggestion that the White Rhinoceros of the Dutch may not 

 be quite the same as the RJiiiioccros sinius, for the old Dutch 

 farmers were not in the habit of calling black animals white. 

 The colour of Rhinoceros simus probably varies within the 

 same limits as does the common species. It is therefore 



