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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.
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THOMAS, O. The White Rhinoceros on the Upper Nile. Nature 62, 599 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062599b0
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