296 THE QUATERNARY SPECIES OF RHINOCEROS. 



identical with De Christol's E. megarhinus. The third species 

 is the E. tichorhinus of Cuv., a name which has been generally 

 adopted, although Blumenbach had previously proposed that 

 of E. antiquitatis. 



Mr. Boyd Dawkins considers that there is still some doubt 

 about the real character of the specimen on which Cuvier 

 founded his E. leptorhinus, and consequently adopts the 

 following nomenclature : E. megarhinus, De Christol ; E. Icp- 

 torhinus, Owen ; and E. tichorhinus, Cuvier. M. Lartet uses 

 the names E. leptorhinus, Cuv. ; E. Merkii, Kaup ; and E. 

 tichorhinus, Cuvier. These differences of opinion, however, 

 relate merely to the nomenclature, and do not touch the 

 existence of the species themselves. The first two belonged 

 to the pre-glacial as well as to the post-glacial period. The 

 woolly-haired, two-horned, smooth-skinned E. tichorhinus, on 

 the contrary, which appears to have been the commonest in 

 post-glacial times, has not yet been proved to have existed in 

 Europe in the period before the glacial epoch. The two other 

 species also have a more southerly range, having been found 

 in Italy and Spain, while E. tichorhinus, though it has been 

 met with from the extreme north of Siberia,* throughout 

 Central Europe and England, does not appear to have crossed 

 either the Alps or the Pyrenees. It is somewhat remarkable 

 that no remains of rhinoceros have yet been discovered in 

 Sicily, Malta, Scotland, Ireland,^ or America, J in all of which 

 countries the elephant has been met with. On the other 

 hand, a single tooth has, according to Brandt, been found in 

 Scandinavia, where no remains of elephant have yet been 

 discovered. 



The Musk-ox, or rather musk-sheep, is at present confined 



* In more than one instance the t Lartet, Note sur deux tetes de 

 actual carcase of this animal has been Carnassiers Fossiles. Ann. d. Sci. 

 found preserved like the mammoth, Nat, 5 Ser. vol. viii. 

 by being imbedded in frozen suil. J D'Archiac, Lemons sur le Faune 



Quaternaire. p. 196. 



