HOOK-LIPPED OR BLACK RHINOCEROS 651 
Typical Black Rhinoceros 
Diceros bicornis bicornis 
Native Names: Swahili, faru; Masai, emune; Kikuyu, huria; Kikamba, 
mbuzya. 
Rhinoceros bicornis Linnaeus, 1758, Systema Naturae, 10 ed., p. 56. 
Range. —In East Africa from German East Africa 
northward to the south bank of the Tana River, westward 
through northern Uganda as far as the east bank of the 
Nile, and north as far as Mongolia and the north end of 
Lake Rudolf; west of the Victoria Nyanza the northern 
distribution is limited by the Kagera River; absent from 
Uganda proper, the Kavirondo country, and the moist, 
tropical coast belt from the Sabaki River southward. 
The black rhinoceros has an extensive range in Africa 
from the Cape region northward to Upper Egypt and from 
the East Coast westward to Nigeria. It is lacking through¬ 
out the whole Congo basin and also locally throughout 
much of the range as here defined. Large rivers have a 
peculiar effect in limiting its dispersal locally. In the upper 
Nile region it is found only on the east bank and in northern 
German East Africa it is found no farther north than the 
south bank of the Kagera River. Moist or damp tropical 
districts seem to be distasteful to it, and on this account 
it is lacking from the Congo basin, central and western 
Uganda, and the moist strip of lowland flanking the East 
Coast from Mombasa southward. Dense upland forest 
is also avoided by them, although they may be found at 
times in the lower parts of such forests or in thick bush 
bordering them. 
The black rhinoceros is still found in Upper Egypt in 
the provinces of Kassala and Senaar and also in the Lake 
Chad region. From the Cape region of South Africa it 
seems to have been first made known to European civ¬ 
ilization in 1650 . At the present time it is quite extinct 
in the Cape Colony and the region just north of it, and is 
not found in a wild state except in remote districts near 
the Zambesi River. Formerly, in this region, the rhinoce¬ 
roses were separated into two races, on the basis of horn 
shape, the normal one in which the front horn greatly ex- 
