346 RHINOCEROS. 



of bones, discovered by the Rev. R. Greaves in a fissure 

 of a limestone rock in Caldy Island, off Tenby, most of 

 which proved to belong to the Rhinoceros tichorhinus. A 

 femur of the same species was discovered by Dr. Lloyd in 

 a fissure of the Aymestry limestone. Mr. Murchison, who 

 cites Dr. Lloyd's discovery, proceeds to say, (loc. cit. 

 p. 554) :- 



" That quadrupeds of extinct species inhabited this 

 (silurian) region, is proved by the contents of certain 

 gravel heaps on its eastern limits. In a pit, south of 

 Eastnor Castle, where the fragments consist exclusively of 

 silurian rocks and syenite of the adjacent hills, the remains 

 of the Elephant and other animals have been found, and 

 at Fleet's Bank, near Sandlin, the bones of a Rhinoceros 

 and Ox. The latter were found by Mr. J. Allies, who 

 has also collected the bones of the Horse, Rhinoceros, 

 Elephant, &c., at Powick, and those of a Rhinoceros at 

 Bromwich Hill, near Worcester." 



Remains of the Rhinoceros were discovered by Mr. Strick- 

 land, associated with those of the Elephant and Hippopo- 

 tamus, in the fluviatile deposits of the valley of the Avon, 

 near Cropthorn, Worcestershire. These deposits appear to 

 form part of the same series which he has traced from Defford, 

 in that county, to Lawford, in Warwickshire, where they 

 have yielded bones of the Rhinoceros in great abundance and 

 perfection. Remains of this Pachyderm were likewise 

 associated with those of the Elephant and Hippopotamus 

 in the analogous fresh-water deposits of the valley of the 

 Thames. The tooth, figured in Mr. Trimmer's Memoir on 

 those at Brentford (Philosophical Transactions, 1813, pi. 

 ix. fig. 2), is an upper molar of a Rhinoceros, not of the 

 Hippopotamus, as there stated. 



The fresh-water formations, exposed on the cliffs of our 



