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carried much more flesh and fat than its ill-conditioned 

 congener. 



Until within the last ten years very few specimens 

 of this almost extinct creature were to be found in 

 European collections. Happily some fine examples 

 have been secured by Mr. Coryndon and Mr. 

 Varndell, and are to be seen at the Natural History 

 Museum, Mr. Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring, 

 in Hertfordshire, and at the Cape Town Museum. 

 At the present time a few of these gigantic mammals 

 still linger in North-East Mashonaland. In Zulu- 

 land, about the dense reed-beds and coverts at the 

 junction of the Black and White Umvolosi rivers, 

 and probably in one or two parts of South -East 

 Africa they are still to be found. 



THE BLACK RHINOCEROS {Rhinoceros bicornis} is, 

 as I have said, the common rhinoceros of Africa, and 

 has a very wide distribution. Its most northerly 

 limit is now probably in the region south-east of 

 Kassala, where I believe these animals are still found. 

 From there southward it ranges as far as North 

 Mashonaland and Matabeleland, along the Zambesi 

 valley, and in Portuguese South-East Africa, where 

 it is, however, from much persecution, becoming 

 scarce. It is probably most abundant at the present 

 day in the little -known regions between Gallaland 

 and the Nile, and in the less explored parts of 

 Uganda and British East Africa. It occurs sparingly 

 in the Portuguese province of Angola, but in West 

 Africa, north of the Equator, it seems to be entirely 

 lacking. 



