356 RHINOCEROS. 
PACHYDERMATA. RHINOCEROS. 
Fig. 131. 
Upper part of skull, Rh. leptorhinus, § nat. size. Clacton, Essex. 
RHINOCEROS LEPTORHINUS.  Leptorhine Two- 
horned Rhinoceros. 
Rhinoceros leptorhinus, ow Rh. a narines 
non-cloisonnées et sans incisives, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 
1622, tom. ii., pt. 1, p. 71, pl. ix. 
figs. 8 and 9; pl. xiii., figs. 4 and 5. 
es Kirchbergense, JAGER, Die Fossilen Seugethiere, 
Wurtemberg, fol. 1839, p. 179, 
tab. xvi., figs. 31, 32, 33. 
Bs Merckii, Kaup, Akten der Urwelt, 8vo., 
1841, p. 6, tab. i., figs. 1, 3, 4, 
and 5 ; tab. ii. 
Wuiutsr the catalogue of extinct European Rhinoceroses 
has been augmented, since the time of Cuvier, by a few 
well-determined and many nominal species, one, which 
the great Paleontologist had himself inscribed there by 
the name of Rhinoceros leptorhinus, has been almost 
blotted out and lost sight of, through the defective cha- 
racter of part of the evidence on which he founded the 
species. 
The name ‘/leptorhinus’ and its French synonym 
‘ad narines non-cloisonnées, more commonly applied by 
