2. CERATOKHINTTS. 315 



not only value them as medicine, but carve them into very elegant 

 ornaments (Blyth, I. c. p. 158). 



2. Ceratorhmus mouspellianus. 



Rhinoceros de MontpeUier, Marcel de Serres. 



Rhinoceros monspellianiis, Blainv. 



Rhinoceros megaJhinus, Be Crigtol ; Gervais, Zool. et PaUont. Fi-anq. 



ii. p. 43, iii. t. 2. 

 Ceratorhinus monspeUianus, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 1023. 



Fossil, Herault, France. 



This species chiefly differs from R. sumatranus in the nose behind 

 the base of the front horn being prolonged and subcylindrical. This 

 species has been mixed up with R. ticJiorhinus (see Gervais, I. c). 



II. The African Rhinocbbotes. The skin uniform, withot4 any strong 

 fold, except at the junction between the head and body. Nose with tioo 

 horns, one behind the other, front longest. SkuU — occiput and condyles 

 not produced; nasal bones free, produced, broad, rounded in front; 

 intgrmaxillaries rudimentary, very small; upper cutting-teeth none. 

 Lower jaw arched below, thick. Teeth 28 : — I. ^ . g-. C. ^ .^. 



jr.jn.. ■4.4' -^"■' 3 • 3* 



Rhinaster, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 1840 ; Gerrard, Cat. Banes B. 



M. p. 281. 

 The African Rhinocerotes, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1023. 



I am not aware that any adult African Rhinoceros has been seen 

 living in this country ; and the external appearance of the species 

 is chiefly known by the excellent figures given by Dr. Andrew 

 Smith, in his ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa,' who 

 figures Rhinoceros bicornis, R. simus, and ii!. keitloa. The speci- 

 mens of these three species which he collected and had stuffed by 

 M. Verreaux under his own superintendence, are in the British 

 Museum. 



There are two-weU marked forms of these animals, characterized 

 by the shape of the head and skull. The first (or short, blunt- 

 headed, narrow-nosed group) includes two, and the second (or long- 

 headed, broad, square-nosed group) includes one well-marked 

 species, and probably another distinguished by the form of the 

 horns, of which only the horns are known. 



There is a not quite adult skull of R. bicornis, and two adult 

 skulls and two very young skulls of R. simus, in the British Mu- 

 seum ; and a skeleton of B. Jceiiloa, previously only known from 

 the description and figure of Camper. Cuvier figured two of these 

 skulls, but considered them the adult and young of the same species. 

 Unfortunately, R. Oswellii is only known from the horns ; I am not 

 aware that any skin or bones of the species have been brought to 

 Europe. There is a large number of the horns of each of the 

 species in the Museum collection ; and they were known to Par- 

 sons, who figured them in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for 



