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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
the National Museum some thirty specimens of skins and 
skulls from the Loita, Kapiti, and Athi Plains, the northern 
slopes of Mount Kenia and Taveta on the southwest flank 
of Kilimanjaro in British East Africa; from Gondokoro, 
Uganda; and Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. Other 
specimens examined at the British Museum have come from 
northern Abyssinia, British East Africa, and Mashonaland. 
Somali Black Rhinoceros 
Diceros bicornis somaliensis 
Native Names: Somali, wiyil; Galla, wartses. 
Diceros bicornis somaliensis Potocki, 1900, Sport in Somaliland, p. 82. 
Range. —From the desert nyika zone of the northern 
Guaso Nyiro River and the north bank of the Tana River 
northward throughout the Lake Rudolf region to the Rift 
Valley of southern Abyssinia; east as far as western Somali¬ 
land and west as far as the east shore of Lake Rudolf. 
Count Potocki has unwittingly become the authority 
for the name of the small race of the black rhinoceros in¬ 
habiting western Somaliland and the desert south of it. 
In his account of his hunting experiences in Somaliland, as 
narrated in “Sport in Somaliland,” he mentions the rhinoc¬ 
eros of Somaliland, giving its scientific name as Rhinoceros 
bicornis somaliensis , and states that it does not differ from 
the rhinoceros of central Africa, but that specimens first 
obtained by Captain Swayne some years previously in 
Somaliland are said to differ, and he therefore apparently 
applies the name somaliensis under the assumption that 
this is the name by which it is already known. Count 
Teleki was the first sportsman to call attention to this race, 
which he pointed out in Von Hohnel’s narrative of his dis¬ 
covery of Lake Rudolf. He refers to it as a smaller race 
than that inhabiting the highland country of East Africa, 
and records meeting with it first a short way south of Lake 
Rudolf and thence northward along the east shore of 
the lake to its extreme northern end. In distribution it 
coincides in a general way with that of the reticulated 
giraffe, Grevy zebra, and desert wart-hog. Lydekker has 
recently given a short account of this race in the Proceed¬ 
ings of the Zoological Society of London for 1911. 
