322 EHINOCEEOIID^. 



2. Ceratotherium Oswellii. (Kobaaba.) B.M. (horn). 



The front horn very long, thick at the base, bent back and then 

 forward at the end, the front of the tip worn flat. 



Trea-grande oorne de Rhinoceros, Bwffon, N. H. x. t. 8. f. 5. 

 Rhinoceros horn, Parsons, Phil. Trans. 1742, 1748, t. 3. f. 6. 

 Rhiuoeeros Oswellii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1853, p. 46, f. (horn) ; Ann. Sr 



Mag. N. H. xv. p. 145. 

 Rhinoceros Oswelh, Andersson, Lake Ngami, p. 386, f. (head), p. 388, 



f. (homj. 

 Oeratotherium Oswellii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1029. 

 Kobaaba, JBaines, Land and Water, July 28, 1866, f. 



Hab. South Africa. 



I have not seen any specimen, or even a skuU, of this species, and 

 I do not believe there is one in any European Museum. 



Camper probably knew JR. Oswellii. He observes, " Cornu ante- 

 rius A D in hoe specimine incurvum adeo fuit ut alteram E F H, 

 tamquam inutile reddiderit. Verum non ita in omnibus ; possideo 

 alterius cranii partem, cujus cornu anterius rectum, et antrorsum 

 incUnatum est." — Camber, I. c. p. 186. 



Mr. Baiues gave a foetus of the Kobaaba to the Royal College of 

 Surgeons (kiUed 3rd of June, 1862). BTe has shown me a series 

 of drawings of the recently killed Kobaaba. One group represents 

 the B. simus and B. Oswellii side by side. The horns of the two are 

 very different in appearance. 



Mr. Baines says Mr. Chapman was informed by the natives that 

 they had never seen a young Kobaaba = C. Oswdlii. Mr. Baines 

 says that it is possible that the horn, being worn away at the end 

 by the constant friction on the front as it passes through the bushes, 

 may bend forward in the older specimens. The Kaffirs make the 

 horns of the cattle bend by scraping them on the sides towards which 

 they wish them to turn. 



Schinz gives the name of niger to the Rhinoceros horn figured by 

 Andersson ; but he describes it as curved back, in the same words as 

 he described the horns of the other African species. 



Camper compares the labial process to a finger, and says it is not 

 unlike the lobe at the end of the trunk of the Elephant. 



See M. F. Fresnel's " Sur I'existence d'une esp^ce unieome de 

 Rhinoceros dans la partie tropicale de I'Afrique " (Comptes Rendus, 

 xxvi. 1848, p. 281). See also A. Smith's ' lUust. Zool. S. A.' t. 1, 

 where he says the natives mention a one-horned African species. 



Ill, Skin smooth, even. SkuU elongate. Intermaxillary bony, short ; the 

 nasal, internasal, and the intermaxillaries zmited into one mass. Asia 

 and Europe, fossil. 



5. CffiLODONTA. 



Nose with two horns. Skull elongate ; face rather produced ; nasal 

 bones broad, rounded in front ; cutting- teeth none ; intermaxillaries 



