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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
MOUNTAIN ZEBRA IN THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn. 
valuable big game animals, and their needs for 
the future. 
Tue Wuirte Ruinoceros (Diceros simus ). 
The White or Square-mouthed Rhinoceros is 
today only found within the boundaries of South 
Africa proper in Zululand. 
Some years ago a special reserve was founded 
in this country for their benefit. This is known 
as the “Mfolozi Reserve,’ and is situated in 
the triangle formed by the junction of the 
White and Black ’Mfolozi Rivers, and extending 
westward for about twelve miles—an area of 
about 75,000 acres. One or two are occasionally 
found in the vicinity of the Gqokolweni Bush, 
as they wander southward across the White 
‘Mfolozi River. There are about thirty of these 
huge pachyderms left alive in the territory 
above mentioned, where they exist today by the 
grace of the Natal Provincial Administration. 
Whether any will remain after the present gen- 
eration is doubtful. The white settlers of Zulu- 
land (and especially those of the Empangeni 
settlements) are determined that all the noble 
creatures in the one-time game paradise—Zulu- 
land—shall be exterminated. 
The fight grows fiercer every year, and un- 
less the reserves in South Africa are national- 
ized, as they are in North America, we can say 
good-bye to many beautiful forms. The Pro- 
vincial Councils leave too much of these matters 
pertaining to game to their small executive com- 
mittees, and these may, or may not, contain men 
interested in the protection of game. 
Recently an enormous drive was engineered 
by the Natal Provincial Administration, and 
many men from all over the Union took part 
in the butchery, which extended over a fairly 
large area in Zululand. It is said that quite a 
number of these so-called “‘sportsmen” never 
had a rifle in their hands before, and the mys- 
tery is that more accidents and irregularities 
did not take place. As it was, four of the rare 
White Rhinoceros were killed, and the game 
was scattered all over the country, thereby 
largely defeating the aims and objects of the 
drive, which was to rid the area of game and 
so to try and do away with the “nagana’”’ disease 
of cattle (i. e., typanosomiasis). 
