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b. Back grey, sides and shoulders rich rufous or cinnamon ; size intermediate 



between last two (skull 84 mm.). N. Somali. 



3. M. phillipsi, Thos. 



B. Last lower molar with a third lobe ; upper line of premaxillffi S-shaped. 

 Proboscis more developed. 



c. Tip of nasals about level with front edge of anterior premolar, about 



33 mm. from end of premaxillse (gnathion). 

 c^. Back of orbit to gnathion about 86 mm. Damaraland. 



4. il/. damareiisis, Giinth. 

 <P. Back of orbit to gnathion about 76 mm. S. Somali to Kilima-njaro. 



5. M. kir/ci, Giinth. 



d. Tip of nasals about level with back of middle premolar and about 42 mm. 



from gnathion. 

 e^. Plateau of Central Somaliland. 6. M. guentheri, Thos. 



P.S. {April ISth, 1894).— Since this paper was read Dr. E. 

 Donaldson Smith has presented the British Museum with further 

 examples ot the two Northern Somali species — M. phillipsi (from 

 Milmil, 1894) and M. swaynei (also from Milmil). 



3. On the Occurrence of the White or Burchell^s Rhinoceros 

 in Mashonaland. By R. T. Coryndon. 



[Eeceived March 30, 1894.] 



(Plate XVIII.^) 



This subject cannot but have a melancholy interest, not only to 

 zoologists, but to sportsmen and naturalists all the world over, for it 

 is more than probable that before the close of this century the 

 White Rhinoceros, the largest of all the mammals after the Elephant, 

 will be extinct, and this, too, with but very few preserved specimens 

 in existence to give the natural-history student of the future an 

 idea of its enormous size and peculiar structure. 



In the early hunting days in Matabililand, and in the high well- 

 watered country which has since come to be known as Mashonaland, 

 Rhinoceroses of both kinds were comparatively common : the White 

 (Rhinoceros simits) was found usually in the open grass-country, 

 the Black (B. bicomis) usually in the rugged hill-country. It is 

 now generally recognized that there are in Africa only two varieties 



1 [The figure (Plate XVIII.) is taken from one of the male specimens shot by 

 Mr. Coryndon, which has been excellently mounted for the Tring Museum by 

 Mr. Eowlaiid Ward, F.Z.S., of Piccadilly. It is described (' Land and Water,' 

 April 14, 1894, p. .571) as follows :— 



" The specimen stands 6 feet li in. at the withers ; length between uprights 

 12 feet 1 in. ; length from lip, along bases of horns, up between ears, and fol- 

 lowing curves of back to root of tail, 13 feet ; to tip of tail 15 feet 8.| in ; gifth 

 behind shoulders 10 feet 3.^ in. ; girth round fore-arm 3 feet 4^ in. The de- 

 velopment of the muscle of the fore-arm attracts attention at once. The width 

 of the lip between the greatest depth of the nostrils is just under 12 inches. 

 The anterior horn measures 2 feet 3 in. round the base, and is 1 foot 10^ in. 

 from base to ' tip.' " 



Mr. Kothschild asks me to add the following remarks :— " In years gone by, 

 when this species was common throughout the Cape Colony, those found 

 in the south-west are said to have been much paler and whiter in colour than 

 those in the north-east, and may have justified to a certain extent the name of 

 White Rhinoceros."— P. L. S.] 



