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Rhinoceros africanus, Desni. Muinin. p. 400 ; Harriii, Purtruits of 

 Wild Animals of 8. A. p. 81, t. 11 (horns at p. 85); Duvertwy, 

 Arch, (lu Mus. vii. t. 8. 



Rhinoceros Briicei, Blainv. 



Rhinoceros niger, Schinz, Syii. Mamm. p. ;}3o. 



Rhiuaster bicornis, (iray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1024; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 

 B. M. p. 2S2. 



In the British Museum there is the skull of a nearlj' adult animal. 



In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons is a very fine 

 skull of an adult of this species (no. 2941), and the upper jaw 

 covered with skin (no. 2942) and with the two horns attached to 

 it. The horns are both circular at the base, regular conical, and 

 blimt at the tip. 



Schinz, who compiled a monograph of the genus, in his Synopsis 

 named a species li. ni(jer, after Gapt. Alexander's description of the 

 Black lihinoceros in his ' Travels into the Interior of South Africa.' 



B. Hums compressed, conical, elom/ate. Head short, swollen in front ; 

 forehead convex, slielving on the sides. Upper lip acute in the middle. 

 Keitloa. 



2. Rhinaster keitloa. (The Keitloa or Ketloa.) B.M. 



Upper lip with a central prominence, acute ; horns elongate, 

 hinder compressed, sharp-edged, often as long as the front one, 

 front one rather compressed, recurved ; shoulder without any 

 hunch ; skin pale yellow-brown. Skull short ; face short from 

 front edge of the orbit to the end of the nasal, not so long as from 

 the front edge of orbit to occipital condyle. 



Rhinaster keitloa, Grat/, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1025. 



Yar. 1. l-eitloa. The horns of nearly equal length; the hinder 

 compressed, sharp-edged before and behind ; the front one rather 

 compressed, broad and flat in front. 



Rhinoceros horn, Parsons, Phil. Trans, hi. p. 32, t. 2. f. 8, 9. B. M. 

 Rhinoceros ketloa or keitloa, A. Smith, Cat. S. A. Mus. p. 7, 1837 ; 



Ilhist. Zool. .S'. A. t. 1 : Schinz. Syn. Mam. p. 337. 

 Rhinaster keitloa, Gray, List Manun. B. M. ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 



B. M. 



Yar. 2. Campcri. The horns both compressed and sharp-edged 

 in front and behind, the front one twice as long as the hinder; 

 upper lip with an acute central jirominence. 



Rhinoceros bicornis capensis, P. Camper, Act. Pefrop. 1777, ii. p. 193, 

 t. 3, 4, 5, (> (copied Bhimenbach, Abhild. t. 7. f. a). 



Rhinoceros bicornis (adult), Cnvicr, Oss. Foss. ii. t. 4. f. 5 (skull 

 copied fi-om Camper). 



Rhinoceros , Sparrinan, Toy. ii. t. 3. 



Rhinoceros Camperi, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 335; Monoyr. t. 1. 



Black Rhinoceros, Baher. Albert Xyanza.\\.\\. 275; Xtle Tributaries, 

 lig. at p. 3()5 (head and horns). 



J fab. South Africa (IJr. A. Vmilh'g t;ip( in B.JL). 



