RHINOCEROS BICORNIS.— Lin. 



Mammalia. — Plate II. — (Female and Young.) 



R. pallida flavo-brunneus, comubus longitudlne insequalibus ; collo ad caput sulco circumdato ; oculis 



brunneis. 

 LoNGiTPDO 10 ped. 11. unc. 



Rhinoceros Africanus, Cuv. Reg. Animal. 



Colour. — Pale yellowish brown, with tints of purple upon the sides of the 

 head and the muzzle ; the groins flesh-coloured ; eyes dark brown ; the horns 

 livid brown, clouded with green ; the hair on the tip of the tail and the 

 margins of the ears deep black. 



Form, &c. — Head rather deep in proportion to its length, which gives it 

 an appearance of clumsiness beyond either of the other South African 

 species ; the anterior horn directly over the extremity of the nose, the first 

 half nearly perpendicular, the last half slightly curved backwards ; the pos- 

 terior horn conical, and often exhibiting an appearance as if the point of a 

 smaller sized cone had been fixed upon the section of a larger one, which 

 observation to a certain extent might also be applied to the front horn ; 

 towards their bases both are rough, and more or less distinctly fibrous ; 

 towards the points hard, smooth, and finely polished. Eyes small ; the skin 

 surrounding them as well as that in front of the ears and on the muzzle and 

 the upper and lower lips, deeply cut by narrow wrinkles,- the extremity of 

 the upper lip scarcely produced. The neck is thick, short, and at its junction 

 with the head encircled by a deep farrow formed in the skin ; the shoulder 

 with a rudimentary hunch ; the body round and heavy ; limbs rather shorter in 

 proportion than in R. Keitloa. Tail flattened towards the extremity, elsewhere 

 somewhat cylindrical ; the upper and lower edges near the tip fringed with 

 thick wiry hair. The surface of the skin rather rougher than in the species 

 last described, owing to its being intersected by a greater number of wrinkles. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Feet. Inches. 



Length from nose to root of tail 10 11 



Height at the shoulder 4 10 



Feet. Inches. 



Length of anterior horn 1 



of posterior horn 



The relative lengths of the horns vary a little in different individuals, but 

 the hindermost one in both sexes is invariably much the shortest, and in 



