NO. I 



THE WHITE RHINOCEROS HELLER 



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1899. Selous, F. C. : The white or square-mouthed rhinoceros {Rhinoceros 



simus), sometimes called Burchell's rhinoceros, in Bryden, H. A.: 

 Great and small game of Africa, London, 1899, pp. 52-67, pi. 1. 



Distribution, habits and history; colored figure of head, pi. 1, fig. 2. 



1900. Osborn, Henry Fairfield : Phylogeny of the Rhinoceroses of Europe. 



Rhinoceros Contributions, No. 5. 

 Bull, of the Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist., v. 13, Art. 19, 1900, New York, 

 1900, pp. 229-267, pi. 18-19. 



Concludes that R. simus is related closely to antiquitatis in skull characters. 



1900. Thomas, Oldfield : The white rhinoceros on the Upper Nile. 

 Nature, Vol. 62, London, 1900, p. 599. 



Description of specimen of R. simus collected by Gibbons in Lado Enclave; states 

 that nearest fossil ally of simus is antiquitatus. 



1900. Sclater, W. L. : The mammals of South Africa, London, 1900, Vol. 1, 



pp. 297-303. 



Description of R. simus, with bibliography; distribution, habits and history. 



1901. Nehring, A. : Ein Schadel des Rhinoceros simus im Naturhist. Mu- 



seum zu Hamburg. 

 Zool. Anz., Vol. 24, Leipzig, 1901, pp. 225-228. 



Text figure of skull, p. 227. 



1901. Thomas, Oldfield: Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis 

 Sclater; with remarks on the generic position of the living species 

 of rhinoceros. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1901, Vol. 2, pp. 154-158. 



Characters of Diceios defined, species included; bicornis and simus, pp. 157-158. 



1901. Holland, W. J.: The Carnegie Museum. 



Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 59, No. 1, New York, 1901, p. 3-20. 



Text figure of mounted specimen of R. simus, p. 14. 



1902. Johnston, Harry : The Uganda Protectorate, London, 1902, Vol. 1, 



pp. 146, 353, 373S74- 



Records distribution of white rhinoceros in Nile Province and north and west of 

 Uganda. (Information based on accounts of Speke and Stanley which refer 

 to the black species.) 



1903. Newton, Alfred: [Exhibition of, and remarks upon, photographs of 



the white rhinoceros, taken by Mr. C. R. Saunders, C. M. G., in 

 Zululand.] 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, Vol. 1, pp. 222-224. 



1903. Sclater, P. L. : [Exhibited the front horn of a rhinoceros, lately ob- 



tained on the White Nile, and made the following remarks.] 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, Vol. 2, pp. 194-195. 



Description of horns of R. Simus obtained by Hawker from Belgian officials at 

 Lado; two figures of front horns, p. 194. 



1904. Gibbons, A. St. H. : Africa : from south to north through Marotseland, 



Description of the collecting of a specimen of R. simus at Lado. Now on exhibi- 

 tion in the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh. 



1905. Osborne, Henry Fairfield : History of a white rhinoceros skull. 



Nature, Vol. 72, London, 1905, p. 127. 



History of the skull of R. simus in the American Museum, with text figure. 



1907. Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. : A journey through the eastern portion of 

 the Congo State. 

 Geog. Journ., Vol. 30, London, 1907, pp. 371-384. 



Mentions shooting a specimen of white rhinoceros near Wadelai, and the collecting 

 of several others. 



