THE SELOtlS COLLECTION. g 



Typical locality, Somaliland ; range extends westward as far as 

 the Tana River and valley of the Northern Gruaso Nyiro. To the 

 north of the Northern Gruaso Nyiro this Rhinoceros inhabits the 

 area to the east of Lake Rudolf ; it is also found in certain parts 

 of Southern Abyssinia. 



439 19.7.15.519. 1912 (sex not recorded). Northern Guaso 



Nyiro, Kenya Colony. Length of front horn on outside 

 curve 24^ ; circumference at base 1 7 ; length of rear horn 

 on side 22| ; circumference at base 17. 



440 19. 7. 15. 520 (sex not recorded). Horns. 1912. Northern 



Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. Length of front horn on out- 

 side curve 21 ; circumference at base 16 ; length of rear 

 horn on side 14 ; circumference at base 16f . 



SOUTH AFRICAN WHITE, OR SQUARE -MOUTHED 

 RHINOCEROS. 



RHINOCEROS (DICEEOS) SIMTJS SIMFS. 



Rhinoceros simus, Burchell, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817, p. 97 ; Travels in 



S. Africa, vol. ii. p. 75, 1824. 

 Ceratotherium simum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 1027 ; Cat. 



Carnivora, etc., Brit. Mus. p. 319, 1869 ; Hand-List Thick-skinned 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 52, 1873. 

 Diceros simus, Thomas, Nature, vol. Ixii. p. 599, 1900 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1901, vol. ii. p. 158. 

 Rhinoceros (Diceros) simus, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 473, 



1910, ed. 7, p. 472, 1914 ; Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. 



vol. v. p. 55, 1916. 

 Rhinoceros simus simus, Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. 



vol. v. p. 56, 1916. 



Size rather larger than in bicornis with much larger head ; 

 skull very long with posterior part prolonged backward well 

 beyond the condyles. First premolar not persistent, the adult 

 number of cheek-teeth being seven. Front horn with square base. 

 Upper lip broad and square. Prominent fleshy hump on nape of 

 neck. Ears considerably larger than in Mcornis. General colour 

 rather lighter than in the Black species. The typical White 

 Rhinoceros of South Africa is very closely allied to the Nile race 



