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lodus), which is distinguished by a very elongate front horn (Fig. 19) 

 and a small posterior horn, as in the existing white rhinoceros {D. 

 simus) of Africa. The resemblance of the cave drawings of the Pleisto- 

 cene animal to the living form is very close indeed except as regards the 

 heavy coat of, hair, which, as in the mammoth, extends far below the 

 body. The hair of the face, of a golden brown color with an nnder- 

 covering of wool, is preserved in the St. Petersburg Museum. Through 

 a discovery (1911) at Starunia^^ in East Galicia this animal is now 







Fig. 19.- — The woolly rhinoceros {Diceros antiquitatis) 



Restored by Charles R. Knight under the direction of the author. 1914. 

 American Museum of Natural History, New Yorls City. 



Original in the 



completely known to us except the tail. The remains of the woolly 

 rhinoceros were found at a depth of 13.6m., including the head, the left 

 fore leg and the skin of the left side of the body, all with the muscula- 

 ture but lacking the hair. The Starunia specimen exhibits a broad, 

 truncated upper lip, small, oblique eyes, ears long, narrow and pointed, 

 a long nasal horn with oval base and shorter frontal horn, a short neck, 



98 NiEZABiTOWSKi, E. L. : "Die uberreste des in Starunia in einer Erdwachsgrube mit 

 Haut und Weichteilen gefundenen Rhinoceros antiquitatis Blum, {tichorhinus Fisch.). 

 Vorlaufige Mitteilung." Bull. Acad. Sci. Cracovie. Ser. B. pp. 240-267. April, 1911. 



