56 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Rhinoceros burchellii, Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 401, 1822. 

 Rhinoceros camus, Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 746, 1827. 

 Opsiceros simus, Gloger, Handbuch Naturgesch. p. 125, 1841. 

 Rhinoceros oswellii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 46, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xv, p. 142, 1855 ; Andersson, Lake Ngami, 



p. 386, 1856. 



Atelodus simus, Pomel, Act. Soc. Lit. Auvergne, vol. xxvi, p. 114, 

 1853; Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 455; Osborn, Bull 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xiii, p. 264, 1900. 



Rhinaster simus, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 282, 1862. 



Rhinaster oswellii, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 283, 

 1862. 



Ceratotherium simum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 1027, Cat. 



Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 319, 1869, Hand-List Thick-skinned 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 52, 1873 ; Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 



vol. Ixi, no. 1, p. 19, 1913. 

 Ceratotherium oswellii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 1029, Cat. 



Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 322, 1869, Hand-List Thick -skinned 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 52, 1873. 



Atelodus oswelli, Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 556. 

 Diceros simus, Thomas, Nature, vol. Ixii, p. 509, 1900, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1901, vol. ii, p. 158. 



Coelodonta (?) simus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, vol. ii, p. 158. 

 Rhinoceros (Diceros) simus, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed.. 6, 



p. 473, 1910, ed. 7, p. 472, 1914. 



WHITE RHINOCEROS; BURCHELL'S RHINOCEROS; SQUARE-MOUTHED 

 RHINOCEROS; WHITE RHINASTER. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 

 The type of Ceratotlierium. 



A. Rhinoceros simus simus. 



Typical locality Cape Colony : the range extends as far 

 north as the Zambesi; with the exception of a few indi- 

 viduals which still survive, under Government protection in 

 Zululand, this race is extinct. 



General characters those of the species. 



B. Rhinoceros simus cottoni (Fig. 20). 



Rhinoceros simus cottoni, Lydekker, Field, vol. cxi, p. 317, 1908, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 38, 1908 ; Trouessart, C.-JR. Ac. Sci. 

 Paris, vol. cxlvii, p. 1352, 1908, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 198, 

 pi. xxix ; Bercer, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1910, p. 344, In 

 Afrikas Wildkammern, p. 430, 1910; Ward, Rrcords of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 473, 1910, ed. 7, p. 472, 1914. 



