. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 4o8 UNGULAIA The common Two-horned Ehinoceros, R. bicornis, is the smaller of the two, with a pointed prehensile upper lip, and a narrow compressed deep symphysis of the lower jaw. It ranges through the wooded and watered districts of Africa, from Abyssinia in the north to the Cape Colony, but its numbers are yearly diminishing, owing to the inroads of European civilisation, and especially of English sports- men. It feeds exclusively upon leaves and branches of bushes and small trees, and chiefly frequents the sides of wood
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 4o8 UNGULAIA The common Two-horned Ehinoceros, R. bicornis, is the smaller of the two, with a pointed prehensile upper lip, and a narrow compressed deep symphysis of the lower jaw. It ranges through the wooded and watered districts of Africa, from Abyssinia in the north to the Cape Colony, but its numbers are yearly diminishing, owing to the inroads of European civilisation, and especially of English sports- men. It feeds exclusively upon leaves and branches of bushes and small trees, and chiefly frequents the sides of wood-clad rugged hills. Specimens in which the posterior horn has attained a length :^^^6\. Fig. 172.—Common African Hhinoceros {Rhinoceros bicornis). as great as, or greater than, the anterior have been separated under the name of B. heitloa, but the characters of these appendages are too variable to found specific distinctions upon. The Common African Rhinoceros is far more rarely seen in menageries in Europe than either of the three Oriental species, but one has lived in the gardens of the London Zoological Society since 1868. The molar teeth of this species are of the general type of those of R. sondainis, having no combing-plate to join the crotchet in those of the upper jaw. The conch of the ear is much rounded at its extremity, and edged by a fringe of short hairs; while the nostrils are somewhat rounded. The eye is placed immediately below the posterior Both in this and the follovidng species the post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes of the squamosal do not unite below the 1 These external points of distinction from B. simiis are taken from a paper by Sclater in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Rich
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