io6o 



THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



out, seems a very short period for such a large animal, and contrasts very markedly 

 with the length of time assigned by Hodgson to the great Indian rhinoceros. 



No fossil species allied to the Sumatran rhinoceros has hitherto been 



Allied Extinct obtained from the Tertiary deposits of India, whence we may conclude 

 Species 



that the latter is probably a comparatively-recent immigrant into 



Northeastern India. Schleiermacher's rhinoceros (R. schleiermacheri} of the 



THE COMMON AFRICAN RHINOCEROS. 



(One-twenty-ninth natural size.) 



Miocene and lower Pliocene deposits of France and Germany appears, however, to 

 have been very closely allied to the Sumatran species, and thus affords, in common 

 with some other fossil Mammals, evidence of an eastward migration of types formerly 

 inhabiting Western Europe. 



