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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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By courtesy Charles Scribner's Sons DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES OF THE WHITE RHINOCEROS Tlic IiK-alilics occupied by this species are everywhere bounded by rivers. The Nile race (2 on the map) (Ceralol her turn sinium simiim), the only one which still exists wild, is confined to a limited district west of the Nile and is never found on the east bank; while the southern race (1 on the map) (Ceratolheriiim simum coUoni), formerly very abundant between the Zambesi and Orange Rivers — although now represented only by some dozen preserved individuals — has never been known to occur north of the Zambesi. The river boundaries illustrate forcibly the strong aversion of these great quadrupeds to crossing streams. During historic times the white rhinoceros has not been known to inhabit the region between its present ranges, although this is apparently well suited to its habits, and the separation must have been comparatively recent, since the races exhibit only slight structural differences. Roosevelt and Heller's Life Histories of African Game Animals contains some forty maps setting forth the distribution of the big game of the continent 147

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