RECENT AND EXTINCT RHINOCEROSES 



Indian rhinoceros and the two-horned African 

 rhinoceroses, one with a pointed upper hp and 

 the other with a square, broad mouth — have 

 been preceded by a whole regiment of extinct 

 rhinoceroses, whose bones and skulls are dug 

 up in the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene 

 strata. In Fig. 99 is represented the complete 





Fig. 99.^ — The skeleton of Rhinoceros antiquiiatis, the woolly 

 rhinoceros of the late Pleistocene period in Europe and 

 Siberia. 



skeleton of the commonest kind of fossil rhino- 

 ceros, the skull of which was dug up in London 

 the other day and is shown in Fig. 5. This 

 rhinoceros had a hairy coat like the mam- 

 moth, and is found sometimes with the mam- 

 moth in frozen gravel in Siberia. The living 



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