AFRICAN RHINOCEROS 285 
ESTIMATED WEIGHT, 1200 lbs. (Capt. F. D. Lugard). 
LENGTH, from tip of nose to end of tail, 13 feet 4 inches. 
” . : to root of tail, 4 feet 1 inch. 
HEIGHT at shoulder, 5 feet 6 inches. Circumference of neck, 4 feet 
94 inches. Circumference of jaws, 4 feet 4 inches. Girth of body, 
S feet 7ainches: 
Shot on the Athi Plains, East Africa, by Count Felice Scheibler. 
MEASUREMENT of East African Rhinoceros bicornizs skull from back 
to front 262+ 14 (Capt. R. A. J. Montgomerie, C.B., R.N.). 
Distribution—South of the Zambesi, limited to hilly and broken country 
along that river east of the Victoria Falls. Sparsely in North- 
Eastern Mashonaland, Matabeleland, and in the low-lying country 
on the east coast, about Sofala Bay. Plentiful in British and 
German East Africa ; also Southern Somaliland, and Abyssinia. 
Length. Circumference. 
Habitat. Owner. 
On front Rear » Front Rear 
curve. Horn. Horn. Horn. 
413 10 204 164 Zululand. . | Lieut.-Col. the Hon. W. Coke. 
-41 BAR se Boe a Carl Hagenbeck. 
41 ian Es AE ie F. Holmwood. 
—40 ae 22 stn East Africa . . | Berlin Museum. 
40 14} 184 204 East Central Africa | A. H. Neumann. 
—398 214 Pee South Africa . | J. Lamont. 
382 Bee 21 as Si Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
384 oe 19 we Masailand . _ | Sir John Kirk, M.D., K.C.B. 
-38 II 24 21? | South Africa . | Earl of Dartmouth. 
-35% ses 18 oe 5c H. Murray. 
2 334 ais 174 ne Matabeleland . | W. Van Ness. 
324 19 21 154 North of Zambesi. | F. V. Kirby. 
—32 ie 19g 194 | Athi Plains, East | Count Felice Scheibler. 
Africa 
