RHINOCEROS SIMUS. 243 



I do not know the reason why Mr. Selous supposes 

 in the Field that at present all those white Rhinoceroses 

 will be extinct, but if he is right in this point, I think, 

 that Mr. Selous, Dr. Sclater and every other friend of 

 Nature, as well as the whole scientific world will hear 

 with great excitement my assertion that there are since 

 more than 40 years in our Museum a beautifully stuffed 

 adult female and since the year 1879 a flat skin of an 

 adult specimen of Rhinoceros simus! These huge animals have 

 a short (not a prehensile) upper lip ; an elongated ear- 

 conch and the two margins of the ear-conch (in the flat 

 skin the ears are in a very bad state) are united together 

 for a great extent and form a closed cylinder which rises 

 about 7 cm. (2 inches 8 lines) above the base; the nostrils 

 are elongated in a direction parallel with the mouth ; the 

 eye is placed further back iu the head than in Rhinoceros 

 hicornis ; the anterior horn (the flat skin is without horns) 

 is not perfectly round; and the distance between anterior 

 horn and margiu of upperlip is very great. In conclusion , 

 we possess a fine and complete stuffed specimen of the 

 true Rhinoceros simus, and as there are perhaps (see Mr. 

 Selous and Dr. Sclater) no other adult specimens in Ame- 

 rica nor Europe, I will give some measurements of this 

 stufl^ed female in our Museum : 



Centiyneters. 

 Length of head and body, from margin of 



upper lip to base of tail .... about 353 



Length of head, from margin of upper lip to 



between the ears about 91 



Length of tail without bristles 79 



» » upperlip 28 



» » ears 24 



Distance between eye and ear 32.5 



Height of anterior horn 47 



» » posterior » 18 



Circumference at base of anterior horn . . 51 



» » » » » posterior » . . 42 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. JCII. 



