The White Rhinoceros on the Upper Nile

Abstract

IT may interest your readers to learn that during his recent notable traverse of Africa from South to North, Major A. St. Hill Gibbons shot on the Upper Nile, near Lado, a rhinoceros; which he considered to be the white or square-mouthed rhinoceros (R. simus), hitherto only known from south of the Zambesi, and now, unhappily, nearly extinct there. His determination is fully borne out by the skull, which I have had the pleasure of examining, and which shows all the many characters that distinguish R. simus from the common species, R. bicornis.