482 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



Phacochcerus ccthiopiciis. — Southern Africa, south of the Zambesi. 

 Total shot, I. — $ . 



Out of Gums. 



No. and .Se\. Locality. Date. R. Tusk. L. Tusk. Height, (iirth. Length. Weight. 

 155 c5 I 3.6.00 7X45 7^x4! 34 40 7^56.76 212 



I. Towards Metemmeh. 

 Charged three times when wounded ; a very pkicky beast. 

 Were seen at Somadu, Gurto, on the Hawash, at Shimerler Jowee, and 

 towards Metemmeh. The Abyssinians are very fond of the meat. 



Diceros bicorins (Linn. j. Two-horned Rhinoceros. 

 (Native name, "Ora-rish.") 

 Mr. Powell-Cotton never found rhinoceros during his entire trip, but 

 remarks that they are said to exist south-east of Kassala. This species 

 of rhinoceros was formerly divided into two species, Rhinoceros bicornis and 

 Rh. keitloa, the former having the front horn much longer than the back 

 one, while the latter had the back horn equal to or longer than the front 

 horn. It has since been proved that these differences in the horn are 

 individual and not specific differences, but it is curious that some years ago 

 a considerable number of whole skins, and skeletons, and loose skulls, and 

 horns of rhinoceros, came to England from " Abyssinia," and they all were 

 of the keitloa type. 



Elephas africaniis oxyotis (Matsch.). Soudanese Elephant. 

 (Native name, "Zohon.") 



Although for many years past it was noticed by such keen observers 

 and hunters as F. C. Selous, A. H. Neumann, and others that the 

 elephants in different parts of Africa showed marked differences, zoolo- 

 gists have hitherto chosen to consider these differences as purely individual, 

 and that there was only one race of African elephant. It remained there- 

 fore for Dr. Matschie, with his usual energy, to go into the question from 

 an unbiassed point of view, and on the i6th of October 1900, at a meeting 

 of the " Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde " in Berlin, he separated 

 four races of elephant as follows: — i. Elephas africajius capensis, Cuv., 

 from Africa, south of the Zambesi ; 2. Elephas africanus cyclotis^ Mtsch., 

 from Kamerun and West Africa ; 3. Elephas africanus oxyotis, Mtsch., 

 from North-East Africa ; and 4. Elephas africanus knochenhatieri, Mtsch., 

 from East and South-East Africa. At the same time Dr. Matschie said 

 that he was sure, if more material could be collected, that the Congolese 

 and Angola elephants would prove yet a different race, and also that there 

 would be found two or three other races in other parts of Africa. 



The differences of the four races are as follows : — 



