Mammalia. 179 



Genus Rhinoceros. Linnceus. 



Incisors ^ or lor ^, canines S d» molars ^l or t i. — 32 or 36, 

 Fncisors unequal amongst themselves ivhere they exist; anterior 

 molars small, posterior increasing progressively ; eyes small, 

 lateral; one oi two horns placed upon the muzzle ; three toes on 

 all the feet ; tail short, laterally compressed near the end; mam- 

 mcE two, shin very thick, nahed, and rugous. 



Rhinoceros Africanus, Desm. (African Rliinoceros.) Skin 

 rough and knotty but without plaits and folds; colour ashy or 

 ashy brown ; a few dark bristly hairs on the edges of the ears 

 and about the bases of the horns ; also some stiff hairs on the 

 sides of the tail towards its tip. Upper lip sublongatcd and 

 pointed ; no cutting-teeth iii either jaw ; two horns on the 

 muzzle, the one behind the other, the foremost much the 7^^ 

 longest, sometimes measuring two feet in length ; skin rough 

 and knotty but without plaits or folds. Length from twelve 

 to fourteen feet ; height from seven to eight feet. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Rhinoceros bicornis, Linnseus. Rhinoceros Africanus, Cuvier. 

 Rhinaster of the Cape Colonists. 



Rhinoceros simus, Burchell. Horns two, muzzle trnncated, 

 skin without folds ; larger than last described species. 



Inhabits Southern Africa, — northward and eastward of 

 Latakoo. 



Rh. du Burchell, Desm. Mamm. p. 401. 



Genus Hyrax. Hormann. 

 Incisors f, canines J J, molars ff,— 32'. Anterior cleek-teeth in the 

 upper-jam nith fiat-triangular cromns, tie others with the crowns 

 slighll;/ concave ; the posterior molars of lower-jaw with a transverse 

 ridge dividing the middle of the crown ; body with two kinds nf hair, 

 one short woolly and abundant, the other long, bristly and very 

 scanty ; fore-feet with four toes, hind-ones with three; nails small, 

 flat, and scarcely covering the upper part of toes ; head rather large, ^ 

 nostrils oblique ,' upper-lip clef t / ears small and rounded ; no tail ; 

 two pectoral and four ventral mammce. 



Hyrax Syriacus, Gmel. (Syrian Hyrax.) Colours of the •- 

 upper-parts grey mixed with reddish brown ; the nnder-parts 

 pure white ; whiskers and eyebrows long and bristly ; on the 

 body similar bristles are thinly scattered amongst the fur ; 

 ears rounded and both surfaces covered with hair : hind-feet 

 with only three toes, the middle one the longest. Length from 

 nose to hinder extremity of body seventeen inches. 



Inhabits Abysinnia, Arabia, and Syria. — Bruce. 



Agnus filioruin Israel, Prosp. Alp. JEgypt, i. 232. Daman 

 Israel, Buff. Supp. Ashnoko, Bruce, Travels v. 139. IJyrax 

 Syriacus, Schrcb. lab. ccxi. B. 



