The White Rhinoceros: With Thirty-one Plates, Volumen61Smithsonian Institution, 1914 - 77 páginas |
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A. H. Clark Actinometra adult female adult male Alaska Alert."-One Amphimetra Antedon arms basal segment BELL bones BRIT British East Africa brown burial cemeteries Ceratotherium simum cottoni Challenger character cirri cirrus segments coast color Comanthus Comatulæ condylo-basal length culmen chord Cyclops darker Diceros differences distal dorsal exopodite fathoms fathoms.-One specimen feet Genus hair Haversian systems head horns immature incisors Island Kermit Roosevelt Lado Enclave lighter London Macclesfield Bank measurements median megalithic milk molars molar monoliths nasals Nile obelisks orbit Original number outer P. H. CARPENTER P₂ parvicirra pinnules premaxillæ premolars Proc protocone race region Report Rhino Camp River sides skin skull slender small specimen SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS snout South Africa species spines spots Station stone subspecies surface tail tarsus teeth Theodore Roosevelt tooth row U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum upper white rhinoceros width Zool zygomatic breadth
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