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besi, this rhinoceros is now extinct except in or about two reserves in 

 Natal and possibly in one or two remote areas of Southern Rhodesia. 



Largest of all land mammals after the elephants; hairless except 

 for a fringe along the edge of the ear and for the tail bristles ; color a 

 slaty gray-black; upper lip straight all round with no trace of a 

 proboscis; ears longer than in the Black Rhinoceros, springing from 

 a closed cylinder about 3 inches long; anterior horn usually longer 

 and slenderer than in the other species; posterior horn usually 

 short, straight, conical. Height of male at shoulder up to 6 feet 

 6 inches; female rather smaller. Record length of horn, 62.5 inches. 

 (W. L. Sclater, 1900, vol. 1, pp. 300-301.) 



The former range corresponds somewhat to the more northerly 

 portions of the Kalahari Arid District and the Southeast Veldt 

 District of Bowen (1933, pp. 256, 259, 260). The distribution is 

 indicated on maps by Heller (1913, pi. 10) , by Roosevelt and Heller 

 (1914, vol. 2, p. 671), and by Lavauden (1933, pi. facing p. 25). 



Angola. This animal occurred formerly on both sides of the 

 Okavango, and possibly a few individuals remain on the Kwando. 

 Yet there is no unquestionable record in this region. (Wilhelm, 1933, 

 pp. 55-56.) 



"According to Zukowsky, as ascertained by Mattenklodt in 1906, 

 White Rhino are 'very rare' at Lujana (S. E. Angola) in the 

 Tschbombe Bush. 



"According to Schulz and Hammer (The New Africa, London, 

 1877) , they were plentiful in that region in the 1870 V (Shortridge, 

 1934, vol. 1, p. 425.) 



In his recent list of Angolan mammals Monard (1935) does not 

 include this species. 



South-West Africa. Of this rhino in South-West Africa, Short- 

 ridge (1934, vol. 1, pp. 425, 427) writes: 



Beyond any reasonable doubt the White Rhinoceros has been extinct in 

 South- West Africa for the last 50 years or more; since then no actual 

 occurrence has been recorded. . . . 



The fact that the Nama Hottentots and local Bushmen had distinguishing 

 names for Black and White Rhinoceros indicates that both species formerly 

 existed in Namaqualand, Gobabis and Grootfontein Districts, and elsewhere 

 in the more level parts of South-West Africa .... 



Zukowsky records horns of White Rhino from the sands of the Omaruru 

 and lower Ugab Rivers [Atlantic drainage], and from near Usikos. . . . 



As early as 1801, Barrow recorded the "supposed" occurrence of this species 

 in Namaqualand. 



Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Bechuanaland. "When 

 Mr. Burchell . . . visited Latakoo [=Litakun], he found it com- 

 mon in that district, and we have been told by the aborigines that it 

 was not unfrequently found even further to the southward. Of late, 

 however, it has almost ceased to exist even in the situations where its 



