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THE SUMMER HOME OF TO-MORROW 
Houseboats and Houseboating 
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THE WHITE RHINOCEROS. 
Major Powell-Cotton has just presented to 
the Natural History Museum the skull and 
horns of a male white rhinoceros killed by him 
in the Lado district of Equatorial Central 
Africa. The skull, says the Field, indicates an 
immature animal, the last upper molar tooth on 
each side not having yet come into use, while 
the last premolar has not been replaced by its 
permanent successor. On contrasting this 
specimen with skulls of the typical southern race 
of Rhinoceros simus I have been somewhat sur¬ 
prised (considering the distance separating the 
haunts of the two animals) to find how com¬ 
paratively slight are the differences. Of the 
two southern skulls used in the comparison one 
belongs to the male obtained some years ago 
by Mr. Caryndon, while the other is a specimen 
which has been long in the museum, and of 
which the sex is unknown. They both indicate 
fully adult animals, having the last molar teeth 
in use. As the second skull differs somewhat in 
form from the first, it may possibly be that of a 
female. 
As regards the teeth (which are of quite a 
different pattern to those of the black species), 
I can find no difference between the southern 
and the northern skulls. The latter is, however, 
readily distinguished by the shorter and wider 
form of the nasal bones which support the front 
horn. In the skull of Mr. Coryndon’s specimen 
these bones project 6 inches in advance of their 
lateral supports, and measure 7^ inches in 
maximum width in front; whereas the corre¬ 
sponding dimensions in the Lado skull are S l A 
inches and 7->4 inches. If the second South 
African skull were used as the basis of compari¬ 
son, the differences would be greater; but that 
skull, as already mentioned, may pertain to a 
female. It may be added that if the skull were 
fully mature the width across the nasal bones 
would probably be still greater, as a character 
of this nature is one which might naturally be 
expected to intensify with age. 
The Lado white rhinoceros thus presents an 
exaggeration of the feature from. which the 
species received its designation of simus (“snub¬ 
nosed,” or “blunt-nosed”), and the difference 
appears sufficiently marked to admit of its being 
regarded as a separate local race, for which the 
name of Rhinoceros simus cottoni will be appro¬ 
priate. Of this race the skull in the museum 
will be the type. The horns of this specimen 
present no characters by which they can be 
satisfactorily distinguished from southern ex¬ 
amples. The front one has an extremely massive 
basis, and curves very sharply backwards; its 
total length being 30^ inches. In this con¬ 
nection it may be mentioned that two horns in 
the museum brought from the Lake Tchad 
district in the early part of last century appear, 
although of small size, to belong to R. simus 
cottoni, and will be so labeled. I may add that 
I have never yet seen female rhinoceros horns 
from Equatorial Africa of the long and slender 
type of those upon which Gray founded the so- 
called Rhinoceros osivelli ; and the absence of 
horns of such a type in the female of the Lado 
rhinoceros may eventually prove to be another 
distinctive characteristic of that. race. 
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The organization of the Wisconsin Game 
Wardens’ Association ought to result in closer 
co-operation in the performance of the duties 
of deputy wardenship under the direction of the 
chief warden. But the need of an extra organ¬ 
ization, with each of the wardens bound by his 
oath to yield obedience to orders and to “hustle” 
is not clearly apparent. Perfect discipline in the 
control of the force of wardens would have 
been sufficient. There would be more to hope 
for from an organization embracing the game 
wardens of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 
The laws of these States are not uniform, and 
an association of game wardens could assist in 
harmonizing the views of the sportsmen of the 
three States and establishing conditions under 
which more protection could be afforded game 
animals and fish.—Milwaukee Evening Wiscon¬ 
sin. 
