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Museum has also another adult specimen of the 

 white rhinoceros ; locality unknown. 



6. A fine head of this species, obtained many 

 years ago by Mr. Burke for Lord Derby, is now 

 in the Liverpool Museum, where the skull (6A) of 

 the same individual is also preserved. Measure- 

 ments of horns : anterior 25in., posterior I2in. 



7. A young white rhinoceros, taken from a 

 mother of the kabaoba type (^so-called R. oswellii) 

 on June 3rd, 1862, by Mr. Baines, and by him 

 presented to the Royal College of Surgeons, is still 

 in the Museum of that institution. It is about six 

 inches long ; although only labelled " Rhinoceros " 

 the rarity and value of the specimen being 

 apparently unknown to the authorities it is un- 

 mistakeably R. simus, the characteristic square lip 

 being well defined, whilst the slit-like nostrils and 

 elongated head are also clearly recognisable. The 

 site of the anterior horn is only indicated by a very 

 slight greyish, flat-topped elevation, hardly differ- 

 entiated from the rest of the head : in the middle 

 of this elevation are seen two small parallel areas 

 of a purplish-brown tint, apparently indicating 

 nuclei of horny material. There is no sign 

 whatever of a posterior horn, nor of any hair or 

 pigment. It is probably the only spirit specimen of 

 Rhinoceros simus in any Museum. 



8. The South African Museum, Cape Town, 

 possesses the head of the bull shot in Mashonaland 



