206 MAMMALIA. 



Rhinoceros simus. 



Rhinoceros simus, Burchell Bidl. Soc. PMlom., p. 96(1817)*; A. Smith 

 S. African ZooL, pi. xix ; Blyth Cat., p. 138 ; Selous P. Z. S., 1881, p. 725, 

 pi. Ixii. 



Distrihutmi. — South Africa. 



a. Anterior horn W. S. Sherwill, 1843, 



A .S. B. 



Order PROBOSCIDEA. 



Animals of large size provided with a long flexible proboscis 

 with finger-like prehensile tip ; no clavicles ; radius and ulna per- 

 manently crossed ; tibia and fibula complete ; hind-legs pillar-like, 

 femur vertical when standing; manus and pes each consisting of 

 five digits united but separately hoofed; in the skull the jugal 

 bones form the middle of the zygoma only; nasals very short; 

 large and extensive frontal sinus present ; tusks are permanent 

 incisors with persistent pulps, but with no enamel ; placenta 

 deciduate and zonary. 



Genus ELEPHAS. , 



Elephas, Linnaus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 48 (1766). 



Elephas indicus. 



Elephas indicus, Linnceus Mus. Frid. Adolph., i, p. ii (1754)*; Cuvier 



Tab. Element d'Hist. Nat., p, 148 (1798)*; Corse As. Res., in, p. 29; 



Elliot Madr. Journ., x, p. 219; Blyth Cat., p. 134; Jerdon Mamm., p. 



229 ; Johnstone P. A. S. B ., 186S, p. 127. 

 Elephas maximus, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed, i, p. 48 (1766) [pt.] 

 E\epha.sasi3Li\cus, Blumenbach Handbuch der Nat urges., 12th ed., p. 106 



(1830). 



The Indian Elephant ; Hasti or Gaja, Sanscrit ; Gaj, Bengali ; 

 Hati, Hind.; Ani in South India; Allia, Cingalese; Shanh, 

 Burmese. 



Dis/n'dulion — The peninsula of India, especially the Western 

 Ghats ; the Terai region of the Himalayas, Assam, Cachar, Burma 

 and Siam, extending southwards to the Malay peninsula. In Ceylon 

 and Sumatra elephants are also found, but it seems doubtful 

 ^vhether they are a distinct species or not. 



Professor Schlegel in a paper published in the Academy of 

 Sciences of Holland (Verslagen en Med. der Koninklj. Acad, van 

 Vetens. Afd.Natuurkunde, 1861, p. loi) a translation of which ap- 

 peared in the Natural History Review, II, p. 72, 1862, has pointed 

 out the distinctions between the true Indian Elephant and that in- 

 habiting the Islands of Ceylon and Sumatra. 



