20 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



Pier-cases described by William Somner in 1669 iu a .small printed 

 m T ?~^' tract entitled " Chartliam News ; or, A Brief Eelation of some 

 4. strange Bones there lately digged up, in some grounds of 



Mr. John Somner of Canterbury ; " but they were wrongly 

 supposed to l)elong to some "sea-monster." One line skull 

 and associated bones were found in an excavation beneath 

 the " Daily Chronicle" office in Fleet Street, London. (Jther 

 fragmentary remains from English caverns prove that this 

 ihinoceros was commonly preyed upon by the hytenas. ( )ne 

 oval plate of bone from Kent's Cavern is particularly note- 

 worthy, and exhibits deep tooth-marks round its edge. It 



Fig. 10. — Skull and lower jaw of the Slender-nosed Rhinoceros (PJiinuceros 

 kptorhimis), from the Pleistocene of Ilford, Essex ; one-eighth nat. 

 size. (Brady Collection, Pier-case 6.) 



is evidently the l)one to which the front horn was fixed at 

 the time when the hytenas gnawed it, and the limit of their 

 gnawing was determined by the size of the base of this 

 horn, which has since decayed. 

 Pier-ease 6. Two other species (B. leptorldnvs and R. megarJii/ms) 

 Table-case q^q represented in the Pleistocene deposits of England and 

 the adjacent parts of the continent, in association with the 

 woolly rhinoceros. Fine skulls of H. leptorhinus (Fig. 10) 

 from the Thames Yalley are placed in Pier-case 6 ; and there 

 are teeth and jaws of this species and R. megarhinus both in 

 Pier-case 6 and in Table-case 4. A slightly earlier rhinoceros 

 {R. etruscus), which commonly occurs in the Upper Pliocene 



