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seven other mounted specimens, the largest of which gave a standing 
height of 5 ft. 8in., while the largest ske/eton measured by him gave 
a height of 5 ft. 9 in. 
The two animals secured by me recently for the Natal Museum, 
Pietermaritzburg, and the Durban Museum measured, in the case of 
the bull, 5 ft. 103in., and of the cow, 5ft. 92 in., the girth of the 
former being 115} inches, and of the latter 112} inches. The bull, 
mounted, gives a standing height of 6 ft. and the cow, 5 ft. 10 inches. 
Now these were picked specimens, and as far as I was able to judge, 
were two or three inches over the average, this certainly was so in 
respect of the cow, while as to the bull, eleven large ones were 
examined at quite close quarters, before one was met with which was 
considered larger than those previously seen. I am therefore in 
complete accord with Mr. Heller, who sums up his conclusions in the 
following words :—‘It is extremely doubtful if the square-nosed 
rhinoceroses ever exceed a standing height at the withers of 6 feet.” 
Referring to the comparison which has been made between L. simus 
and FR. unicornis, the Indian species, there can be little doubt as to 
the superiority in size of the latter. 
Rowland Ward, in his third edition of Records of Big Game, 1899, 
gives the measurements (presumably averages) of the Indian species as 
5ft. 8in. to at least 6 ft. at the shoulder and girth 105 inches. 
But he also gives measurements of three mounted specimens shot by 
H. H. the Maharajah of Kuch Behar, which are as follows :— 
Shoulder height...... 6ft. 44in......... Obi. lame. s25- 6ft. Osin. 
Gimche eee eee co scene Nab The ies Baers es Pita «gee: — 
The colour of a normal individual of the ‘‘ white” species is really 
very little lighter than that of the so-called ‘black rhinoceros,” and 
it is fairly well-known at this time that neither is black and neither 
white. The shade designated “light mouse grey” in Ridgway’s 
“Colour standards and Nomenclature ” appears to me to best describe 
the normal colour of the white rhinoceros, darker individuals amongst 
them corresponding in shade with the “‘mouse grey” of the same 
authority. But, on the other hand, individuals may be met with in 
Zululand which by the same colour standards might be described as 
ranging from ‘‘drab” to ‘‘ cinnamon drab.” 
When standing on a ridge exposed to the slanting rays of the 
morning sun they look absolutely white, and as these animals would 
have been first encountered by the early Dutch hunters on the open 
grass downs of the Vaal and Orange Rivers, and would thus be 
frequently seen under such conditions, it is possible that its present 
familiar, though inappropriate, name thus arose. 
