206 MAMMALIA. 



Rhinoceros simus. 



Rhinoceros simus, Burchell Bull. Sac. Philom., p. 96 (1817)* ; A. Smith 

 £. African Zool., pi. xix ; Blytk Cat., p. 138 ; SHaas P. Z. S., 1881, p. 725, 

 pi. Ixii. 



Distrilution. — South Africa. 



a. Anterior horn W. S. Sherwill, 1843, 



A .S. B. 



Order PROBOSCIDEA. 



Animals of large size provided with a long flexible proboscis 

 with finger-like prehensile tip ; no clavicles ; radius and ulna per- 

 manently crossed ; tibia and fibula complete ; hind-legs pillar-like, 

 feruur vertical when standing; manus and pes each consisting of 

 five digits united but separately hoofed; in the skull the jugal 

 bones form the middle of the zygoma only; nasals very short; 

 large and extensive frontal sinus present ; tusks are permanent 

 incis&fs with persistent pulps, but with no enamel ; placenta 

 deciduate and zonary. 



Genus ELEPHAS. 



Elephas, Linnaus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 48 (1766)1 



Elephas indicus. 



Elephas indicus, Linnaus Mus. Frid. Adolph., i, p. 11 (1754)*; Cuvier 



Tab. Element cC Hist. Nat., p, 148 (1798)*; Corse As. Res., iii, p. 29; 



Elliot Madr. Journ., x, p. 219; Blyth Cat., p. 134; ferdon Mamm., p. 



229 ; Johnstone P. A. S. B., 1868, p. 127. 

 Elephas maximus, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed, i, p. 48 (1766) [pt.] 

 ^\epba.sasia.^cxis,BlumenbachHandbuchderNaturges., 12th ed., p. 106 



(1830). 



The Indian Elephant ; Hasti or Gaja, Sanscrit ; Gaj, Bengali ; 

 Hati, Hind.; Ani in South India; Allia, Cingalese; Shanh, 

 Burmese. 



Distribution — The peninsula of India, especially the Western 

 Ghats ; the Terai region of the Himalayas, Assam, Cachar, Burma 

 and Siam, extending southwards to the IVEalay peninsula. In Ceylon 

 and Sumatra elephants are also found, but it seems doubtful 

 whether they are a distinct species or not. 



Professor Schlegel in a paper published in the Academy of 

 Sciences of Holland (Verslagen en Med. der Koninklj. Acad, van 

 Vetens. Afd. Natuurkunde, x86i, p. loi) a translation of which ap- 

 peared in the Natural History Review, II, p. 72, 1862, has pointed 

 out the distinctions between the true Indian Elephant and that in- 

 habiting the Islands of Ceylon and Sumatra. 



