2. ciicERorsis. 



357 



Hippopotamus capensis, Dcsm. Journ. P/ii/s. v. p. 3-'54 ; Diet. Class. 



H. N. viii. p. 22:J. 

 Hippopotamus senegsXensis, Destn. Journ. Phys. v. p. 354; Diet. Class. 



H. N. viii. 222. 

 Hippopotamus abyssinicus, Lesson, 3Iamm. 

 Hippopotamus tj-picus et Hippopotamus australis, Duvernoy, L^In- 



stitiit, 1846, p. 333. 



Hab. North, South, West, and Central Africa. 



I have not been able to discover any difference between the skulls 

 received from South, North, or Central Africa. 



There is a foetus in spirits in the Uritish Museum. — Gi-ai/, P. Z. ti. 

 1868, p. 491, f. 2. 



Fig. 40. 



I"\etus of Hippopotamufs of the natural size. 



Cuttiug-tecth four in each jaw. >'/tc^<X<- ir^^^^ Z^^-*-^ / ^S^w 



Chreropsis, Lcidy, .Town. Acad. N. S. Philad. ii. 3. p. 207, 18")3. 



? Diproctodon, I)iive)-noy, 1849. 



Tetraproctodon, sp., Falconer, Pal. Mem. ii. p. 405. 



Chceropsis liberiensis. B.M. 



Hippopotamus minor, Morton, Journ. Aead. N. S. Philud. 1844, p. 14 \ 



Ann. Sc May. N. II. 1844, xiv. p. 75. 

 Hippopotamus liberiensis, 3Iorton, Trans. Acad. JV. S. Phiiad. 1849; 



Fror. Tayxber. 1850, p. 73 ; Davernoy, Instifut, xvii. 1849, p. 299. 

 Chceropsis liberiensis, Lcidi/, Journ. Acad. N. S. Philud. 1853, p. 207, 



t. 21. 

 Hippopotamus (Tetraproctodon) liberianus, Cwvn/Y/, C«<. i^owesi;. J/. > > . 



^P--^^^- ... V... 



Tetraproctodon liberiensis, Falconer, Pal. Mem. ii. p. 405. 



Hippopotamede Liberie, Milne-Edicard.t &,- Alpl. ]\l.-Edu: Pecherches 



des Manvniferes, 18l>8, t. 1. f. 2, 3 (animal and skeleton). 



Hah. West Africa ; Liberia (il/o/'?o«). 



Cast of skull in British Museum, presented by G. S. Morton, J^sq. 



