82 THE SELOrs COLLECTION. 



Uganda, Kenya Colony (excluding the Iforthern Guaso Nyiro 

 district, Tanaland and Seyidie Provinces) to Tanganyika Territory. 



429 —19.7.15.509. 26 December, 1902. Elmenteita Station, 



NaiYasha District, Kenya Colony. 



430 —19.7.15.510 (female). 26 December, 1902. Elmenteita 



Station, Naivasha District, Kenya Colony. 



Family RHINOCEROTID^. 

 TYPICAL BLACK EHINOCEROS. 



EhINOCEEOS (DlCEEOS) BICOBNIS BIOOENIS. 



Rhinoceros bicornis, Linn. Syat. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 56, 1758 ; ed. 12, 



vol. i. p. 104, 1766. 

 Diceros bicornis, Gray, Med. Eepository, vol. xv. p. 306, 1821. 

 Bhinoceros {Diceros) biaomis, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 467, 



1910, ed. 7, p. 466, 1914 ; Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. 



vol. >.p. 52,1916. 

 Bhinoceros bicornis bicm-nis, Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. 



vol. V. p. 54, 1916. 



In size very little inferior to the White or Square-mouthed' 

 Rhinoceros, distinguished by the shorter head, the skull being con- 

 siderably shorter and not elongated posteriorly beyond condyles ; 

 seven cheek-teeth on each side, the first premolar remaining 

 throughout life. Front horn with rounded base. Upper lip 

 pointed and hook-shaped. The prominent hump on the neck, so 

 characteristic a feature of simus, is absent. The typical race is 

 very like the Somali form, size rather larger, and with skull 

 slightly more concave dorsall3^ 



Typical locality, Cape Colony. The range at one time extended 

 from the Cape northwards to Uganda ; at the present time the 

 Black Rhinoceros is quite extinct in Cape Colony and is only found 

 in a few localities south of the Zambesi. In East Africa this race 

 is not found in the desert regions of the Northern Guaso Nyiro or 

 east of the Tana River, where its place is taken by the Somali 

 form. It appears that the Black Rhinoceros was exterminated in 

 Cape Colony and the Orange River Colony by the vear 1858, 



