The Perissodactyla — Rhinoceros. 33 



the fossil remains of the genus, published in a curious old tract Rhinoceros, 

 of the period.* Pier-case, 



No. 6. 



Fig. 40. — Skull and lower jaw of Rhinoceros megalodus (Cope), i nat. size ; from the 

 Miocene (Loup Fork Beds) of Colorado, N. America. 



Skill Is and other remains have been dredged up by fisher- 

 men from the "Dogger Bank," in the North Sea, and they are 

 also found, associated with the remains of the Mammoth, in the 

 ■gravels and brick-earths of various localities. Several fine 

 examples of rhinoceros remains may be seen in the pier-case. 



Five species of rhinoceros have been found fossil in this 

 ■country, three of which inhabited the valley of the Thames, 

 namely: the " Tichorhine " (R. tichorhinus—antiquitatis); the 

 •"Leptorhine " (R. leptorhinus) ; and the "Megarhine" (R. 

 megarhiniis) ; of the two last-named species there is a fine and 

 interesting series of remains, including a nearly perfect skull, 

 which shows the bony septum of the nares (see Fig. 39), from 

 the brick- earths of Ilford and Grays, Essex (see Pier-case, No. 6). 

 R. etruscus is found in the Forest-bed series of Norfolk, and 

 teeth of a species now referred to R. incisivus, are frequently 

 met with in the Red Crag of Suffolk. 



Various remains of about twenty extinct species of rhino- 

 ceroses are arranged in Pier-cases, Nos. 6, 7, and 8, and in Table- 

 case, No. 4 ; of these, two are from China, and four from the 

 Siwalik Hills, India, and comprise skulls, jaws, and bones of 



Pier-case, 

 No. 6. 

 Table-case, 

 No. 4. 



Pier-case, 

 Nos. 6, 7, 

 and 8. 



Pier-cases, 

 Nos. 6, 7, and 

 8, and Table- 

 case, No. 4. 



" The Chartham ZSews, or a brief relation of some strange bones there 

 lately digged up in the grounds of Mr. John Sumner, of Canterbury." 

 London : 1669. 



(1876) D 



