392 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



E.— Hippopotamus amphibius australis. 



Hippopotamus australis, Duvernoy, C. B. Ac. Sci. Paris, vol. xiv, 

 p. 333, 1846 ; Miller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. liv, no. 7, p. 3, 

 1910. 



Hippopotamus oapensis. Falconer, Journ. Ac. Sci. Philad. ser. 2, 

 vol. i, p. 237, 1849 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 p. 142, 1863 ; Gray, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 357, 1869 ; 

 quoted — although not recognised as a species— as from Des- 

 moulins, Journ. Physiol, vol. v, p. 354, 1825, where, however, 

 according to Miller (1910), no such name was given. 



Hippopotamus amphibius oapensis. Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 

 vol. Ixi, no. 22, p. 1, 1914. 



Hippopotamus amphibius australis, Schiuam, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 8, vol. xlii, p. 32, 1914. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 



Skull apparently still more flattened than in H. a. 

 tschadensis, so that the width of the orbit is greater than the 

 height. 



726, a. Skull. South Africa. No history. 



51. 12. 23. 4. Skull, young. South Africa. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1851. 



63. 11. 12. 51. Skull. Cape Colony. Formerly in 



Museum of Linnean Society. Purchased (Stevens), 1863. 



69. 8. 13. 2. Skull. Natal ; collected by Mr. B. Isaacson. 



Purchased, 1869. 

 13. 1. 31. 1. Pair of lower tusks. South Africa. 



Presented hij J. C. Lyell, Esq., 1913. 



II. Genus CHffiROPSIS. 



Diprotodon, Duvernoy, C. B. Ac. Sci. Paris, vol. xxix, p. 277, 1849 ; 

 neo Owen, 1838. 



Choerodes, Leidy, Proc. Ac. Sci. Philad. 1852, p. 52; neo White, 1846. 



Choeropsis, Leidy, Journ. Ac. Sci. Philad. ser. 2, vol. ii, p. 213, 1853 ; 

 Gratiolet, Becherches Anat. Hippopotame, p. 202, 1867 ; Milne- 

 Edwards, Bech. Mamm. p. 77, 1868 ; Cray, Cat. Carnivora, etc. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 357, 1869 ; Macalister, Proc. B. Irish Ac. ser. 2, 

 vol. i, p. 494, 1873 ; Peters, Monatsher. Ale. Berlin, 1873, p. 445 ; 

 Chapman, Proc. Ac. Sci. Philad. 1893, p. 185 ; Beaux, Zool. 

 Anz. vol. xl, p. 227, 1912 ; Pococh, Field, vol. cxxi, p. 336, 1913. 



Ditomeadon, Qratiolet, Oervais' Zool. et Pal. Gen. ser. 1, p. 250, 1860, 

 Becherches Anat. Hijypopotame, p. 202, 1867. 



Diprootodon, Gray, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 357, 1869, 

 errorim. 



