ORDER PERISSODACTYLA I ODD-TOED UNGULATES 407 



In and near the Umfolosi Reserve "the animals have bred well 

 during the year and there are now just over 200. 



"The White Rhino have apparently come to stay in the Hluhluwe 

 Reserve. A recent census shows that at least eleven adults and two 

 calves are at present resident there." (Ann. Rept. for 1933 of H. B. 

 Potter, Game Conservator, Zululand.) 



"There are about 200 of these animals now, and it is estimated 

 that they are increasing at the rate of about 30 each year. . . . 

 At least 40 were in the area lying between the Umfolosi and 

 Hluhluwe Reserves, which area we hope to add to the Reserves. 

 The remaining 60 of the wanderers were on the Crown lands to the 

 west of the Umfolosi Reserve adjoining the Mahlabatini Native 

 Reserve, which cannot be used as a Game Reserve." (Charter, 1934, 

 P- 2.) 



"There were terrific droughts from 1931 to 1933 in this portion 

 of Zululand. According to some reports most of the rhinoceroses 

 wandered about aimlessly and a few died and were killed." (Herbert 

 Lang, in litt., January 23, 1935.) 



The present range is limited to the area surrounding and including 

 the Umfolozi and Hluhluwe Game Reserves. The number is 

 estimated at between 250 and 300. Depletion took place before 

 the Natal game laws were enforced in Zululand in 1906. The horn 

 can be used to make handles for walking sticks and also for other 

 ornaments. (Administrator's Office, Natal, in litt., December, 1936.) 



"This rhinoceros for the time being may be regared as in a fairly 

 firm position" (Dollman, 1937, pp. 73-74). 



Both subspecies of the White Rhinoceros are accorded full pro- 

 tection under Schedule A of the London Convention of 1933. 



Northern White Rhinoceros; Nile White Rhinoceros. 

 Rhinoceros blanc du Soudan (Fr.) 



CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM COTTONI (Lydekker) 



Rhinoceros simus cottoni Lydekker, Field, vol. Ill, no. 2878, p. 319, 1908. 

 ("The Lado district of Equatorial Central Africa"; type locality said by 

 Heller (1913, p. 29) to be "some distance north of the station of Kiro, 

 almost precisely on the northern boundary of the Lado Enclave.") 



FIGS.: Trouessart, 1909, pis. 29-31; Roosevelt, 1910, pis. facing pp. 400, 414, 

 420, 422, 428; Heller, 1913, pis. 1, 6-9, 31 (figs. 2-5); Roosevelt and 

 Heller, 1914, vol. 2, pi. facing p. 664; Selous, 1914, pi. 2, left-hand fig.; 

 Lydekker, 1916, vol. 5, p. 57, fig. 20; Lang, 1920, pp. 65-92, figs., and 

 1923, pi. 16; Brocklehurst, 1931, frontisp. and pis. facing pp. 107, 108, 

 and 110; Lavauden, 1934, pi. 15; Ward, 1935, pp. 342, 346, figs.; Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. Sci. Guide 118, ed. 2, p. 106, fig., 1943. 



About 15 years ago the Northern White Rhinoceros was much 

 persecuted, and fears were expressed concerning its survival. Its 

 status in the northeast of the Belgian Congo is still unsatisfactory, 



