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RHINOCEROS. 



PA CHYDERMA TA . 



RHINOCEROS. 



Fig. 131. 



Upper part of skull, Rh. leptorhinus, | nat. size. Clacton, Essex. 



RHINOCEROS LEPTORHINUS. Leptorhine Two- 

 horned Rhinoceros. 



Rhinoceros leptorhinus, ou Rh. a narines 

 non-doisonnies el sans incisives, 



Kirchbergense, 



Merckii, 



CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to., 

 1822, torn, ii., pt. 1, p. 71, pi. ix. 

 figs. 8 and 9 ; pi. xiii., figs. 4 and 5. 



JAGER, Die Fossilen Saeugethiere, 

 Wurtemberg, fol. 1839, p. 179, 

 tab. xvi., figs. 31, 32, 33. 



KAUP, Akten der Urwelt, 8vo., 

 1841, p. 6, tab. i., figs. 1, 3, 4, 

 and 5 ; tab. ii. 



WHILST the catalogue of extinct European Rhinoceroses 

 has been augmented, since the time of Cuvier, by a few 

 well-determined and many nominal species, one, which 

 the great Palaeontologist had himself inscribed there by 

 the name of Rhinoceros leptorhinus, has been almost 

 blotted out and lost sight of, through the defective cha- 

 racter of part of the evidence on which he founded the 

 species. 



The name ' leptorhinus ' and its French synonym 

 ' a narines non-cloisonnees? more commonly applied by 



