1. RniNOCEROS. 303 



In the Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons there is the 

 skeleton of an adult animal (no. 2909 a) that formerly had the Ion- 

 front horns of an African Elephant plaecd on its nasal bones, M'hich 

 JVlr. flower, the present Curator, has properly removed. 



There are also skulls of half-grown or female animals, with the 

 seventh grinder just showing itself, of this species (nos. 2975 9976^ 

 with a large oblong erect lachrymal. ' " '' 



All these skulls have thick iiitermasillaries, and the front of the 

 upper jaw, at the base of the intermaxillaries, is not suddenly con- 

 tracted. In the three adult skulls it is 3 inches 9 lines wide • in 

 the younger skidl in the College of Surgeons (no. 2975) it is 3 inches 

 3 lines. The width of the diastema between the cutting-teeth and 

 the front premolar is 2 inches 6 lines in all the specimens. 



There is a stuffed specimen and a mounted skeleton of a youno- 

 animal, just showing the horn, in the Free Museum at Livcrpoof 

 and the skull of a second of the same age. These two animals died 

 on the voyage from Calcutta to Liveq.ool, were named R. sonchdcus 

 J ^\ IJ ' ''"""^ preserved by Mr. Moore, the energetic Curator 

 of that Museum. Mr. Blyth informs me there is a skeleton of 

 > B. sondcucus m the Anatomical Museum of Guy's Hospital called 

 it. tndicus. ' 



The Indian Ilhinoceroses are long-lived. Mr. Blyth speaks of a 

 pair that lived about forty-five years in captivity 'in Barrackpoor 

 park : they were exactly alike in size and general appearance ; they 

 never bred ; there is no difference in the horns or form of the skulls 

 m the two sexes (Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 155). 



The f(Etal skull otB. taiicorms (no. 722 D) in the British Museum 

 received from Mr. Bryan Hodgson, is short ; the brain-case is oblong' 

 ovate, swollen, and convex behind ; the nasal bones are about as 

 long as they are broad at the hinder edge, transversely convex above 

 in the middle of their length and in the deep central groove in front 

 above; the nasal cavity is long, high, and wide; the nasal bones 

 are three-eighths of the entire length to the occipital crest • the 

 length of the skuU from the nasal to the front of the orbit is two- 

 Wths of the entire length to the occipital condyles. The inter- 

 maxillaries arc well developed, rather thick and 'short ; they each 

 bear two blunt teeth, scarcely raised above the alveolus, the first on 

 each side is much larger and thicker than the hinder one which is 

 smaU and conical. There are three grinders developed on each side 

 the second and third being rather more developed than the small 

 front one. There appears to have been a fourth tooth on each side 

 more or less developed ; but it and the cavity have been lost The 

 palate is narrow and deeply concave, nearly of equal width but the 

 sides are less erect and more expanded behind than in front • the 

 front edge of the hinder nasal aperture is narrow, and rather in 

 front of a line even with the hinder edge of the third gi-inder • the 

 length of the palate from the front edge of the intermaxillaries is 

 rather more than from the end of the palate to the suture lietweeu 

 the basal sphenoid and the basal occipital hone. The vomer is com 

 pressed, and forms a weU-marked broad ridge, which is much hi-her 



