PA CH YDERMA TA . 



RHINOCEROS T1CHORII1NUS. 



Fi</. 120. 



RHINOCEROS. 



Skull of Rhinoceros tichorhiuus. 5 nat. size. 



Fit/. 121. 



Portion of skull of Rhinoceros, from Newer Pliocene at Chartham, Kent. 



EHINOOEROS TICHORHINUS. Tichorhine two- 

 horned Rhinoceros. 



Rhinoceros tichorhinus. ouRh. (marines cloisonnes. CUVIEK, Annales du Museum, 



torn, iii., p, 46. Ossemens Fos- 

 siles, 4to, 1822, vol. ii. pt. i. 



THE first notice and figure of fossil remains referable 

 to the genus Rhinoceros, occurs in a quaint and extremely 

 rare old tract entitled, " Chartham News, or, A Brief 

 Relation of some strange Bones there lately digged up, in 

 some grounds of Mr. John Somner of Canterbury : writ- 

 ten by his brother, Mr. William Somner, late auditor of 

 Christ Church, Canterbury, and register of the Arch- 

 bishop's court there, before his death. London : Printed 

 for T. Garthwait, 1669." (4to, pp. 10, with a plate.) 



