380 RHINOCEROS. 



is noticed in the addition to the paragraph on that species in 

 the 8vo. edition of the ' Ossemens Fossiles, 1 torn, iii., p. 

 138 : I am not disposed, however, to place much stress 

 upon this as a specific character. 



Mr. Parkinson appears to have been the first to recog- 

 nize remains of the Rhinoceros in the formations on the 

 Essex-coast. He says : " From several fragments of 

 bones, which I met with in the Essex bank, I was led to 

 suppose that the remains of some other very large animal, 

 besides those of the Elephant and Elk, had been there 

 imbedded." ' Organic Remains,' vol. iii. p. 371. The 

 upper part of an os femoris, which differed from that 

 of any animal with whose skeleton Mr. Parkinson was 

 acquainted, induced him to be more particular in his re- 

 search, and led to his discovery of the tooth of the 

 Rhinoceros, which he has represented in Plate xxi. fig. 3. 

 (op. cit. p. 372.) " This tooth," he proceeds to say, " is 

 an upper molar of the left side, is pretty much worn, and 

 must have belonged to a small animal, since it is not one 

 half the size of the teeth which are found at Chartham." 

 The figure shows all the essential characters of the upper 

 molars of the Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 



A part of a fossil lower jaw, discovered in the tertiary 

 marine deposits of Monte Blancano, near Bologna, which 

 had obtained notoriety through Professor Monti's descrip- 

 tion of it, in 1719, as part of the skull of a Morse, was 

 not only proved by Cuvier to be part of a Rhinoceros, 

 but the great Anatomist congratulated himself on being 

 able to determine, by the prominent symphysis, that it had 

 belonged to the Rhinoceros tichorhinus. " This discovery," 

 he remarks, " is one of great importance, since it shows 

 that the two species " (the tichorhine and leptorhine) " had 

 inhabited Italy," op. cit. p. 143. 



