4. CERATOTHERIXJM. 319 



4. CERATOTHERIUM. 



Head elongate, produced behmd ; forehead flat ; nose very broad 

 square at the end; upper lip bovine, rounded. Horns two very 

 unequal, hinder small. Skin smooth, not divided into shields 

 Shoulder with a well-marked hunch. Skull elongate ; the portion 

 ot the skull behind the hinder edge of the last or seventh grinder as 

 long as the one in front of it; occiput erect, the upper margin 

 much produced behind the condyle ; forehead concave ; nose straight 

 rounded; nasal bones very broad, convex above, truncated, with a 

 shai-p edge in front ; lower jaw thick, tapering in front; molars large • 

 teeth-lme straight. " 



The skull of the very young animal has a very convex, nearly 

 hemispherical prominence on the nasals, and is broad and rounded 

 in tront ; but the prolongation of the hinder part of the skull is 

 shown m the foetal skull m which the milk-grinders are only just 

 appearing, the proportion of the hinder and anterior portions bein- 

 nearly the same as in the adult skulls; the occiput is erect, without 

 any marked projecting crest. 



Ceratotherium, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1027. 



"Gentle and a 'grazer ;' Hving in open plains, feeding on grass " 

 —A ^mit/i "The first animal that disappears before firearms."— 

 Air/c, I . Z. b. loo4, p. 655. 



1. Ceratotherium simtun. (Mahoohoo.) B.M. 



The front hom very long, slender, subcylindi-ical, recurved; hinder 

 very smaU conical ; nose broad, high, square. " Pale grey-brown • 

 shoulder buttocks, and beUy darker." The face of the skull from 

 the ti-ont edge of the orbit longer than the portion of the skuU behind 

 tnis place. 



Khinoceros horn, Parsons, Phil. Trans. 1742-43, t. 3. f. 6 (front hom) 



Khmoceros simus Purchdl ; Blainv. Journ. de Phys. Lxi. p. 163' 



t. (head^ horns bad) ; Cumer, Oss. Foss. ii. p. 28 ; Burchell, Travek 



n'c)^ifi-^7' ^nA""^^A 5''"^- ^ ^-.t- 1^ (^'i™^!) ; Gat. S.A. Mus. 

 p. J, 1837 ; Jilamv. Osteogr. Onguligrades, t.4(skuU &c.) ; Duvemmi 



^fselp 100. *• ^' ^ ^'''"^^' *^ ("^'^^^'i^^^^) ; *>^«'4 Pz. 



Rhinoceros Biu-cheUii, Desm. Mamm. p 401 



Kliiuoceros simus (Chicore), A. Smith. Pep. p. 08, 1836; Harris 

 ''ijiorts in i>. Africa, p. 371. ' 



Rhinoceros camus, Ham. Smith ; Griffith, A. K. v. p 740 

 Rlmia^^er simus, Gray, List Mam. B.M. 1840; Gerrard, 'Cat. Bones 



? Rhinoceros Gordonii, Blainv. 



Ceratotherium simum, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 1027 



The Square-nosed or White Rhinoceros (Rliinoceros simus), Harris, 



Po>-f'l>s of If dd Animals of S A. p. 07, t. 19 (horns at p. 101). 

 \\ lute Rhinoceros or ^^ itte Rhina.^ter, Colonists, Cape G H. 

 Llnckore or Mohoohoo, Bnlmana and Matabitv. 

 Uah South Africa {BunheU ■ Dr. A. Smith, ti,pt spec. B.M)- 

 Central Afnca (A7rA). -^ -f ■), 



