408 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
in the Nepal Terai, but is found there from Rohilkund to the Bhootan 
Doars.” 
DEscRIPTION.—The accompanying outline sketch, taken from JVature 
for April 1874, will give a better idea of the animal than a mere verbal 
description :— 
“For convenience of description I will divide the body into. five 
segments—the head, the cervical, the scapular, the abdominal, and the 
gluteal. At the junction of the head with the neck is a large deep 
collar or ruff or fold of skin, which gives a very peculiar appearance to 
the animal. Behind this is a second similar but smaller ruff, which 
does not hang so low down from the 
throat as the first. On the dorsal 
surface it transversely crosses the 
nape. It is then continued down 
angularly to about the centre of the 
anterior edge of the scapular shield, 
where it forms an obtuse angle with 
its posterior but major half. It is 
Rhinoceros Indicus. at the point where it forms this angle 
that it gives off what I call the 
cervical fold, which forms the boundary of the top front edge of the 
scapular shield, but is lost at a point in the shoulder nearly over the 
centre of the fore limb. 
“The scapular shield is a thick cuirass-like plate of skin, studded with 
round projections about the size of a shilling, and bearing much resem- 
blance to the heads of bolts by which the shield was “riveted to the 
body, and hence called ‘ boiler-bolt tubercules.’ This shield is often 
removed from the carcase of a slain rhinoceros as a trophy, ‘and it is 
in its centre, but slightly low, that the fatal spot lies which will take him 
in the heart’ (Pol/ock). 
“ Between the scapular and the pigteel shields lies the abdominal 
segment. It calls for no particular description, except that the tuber- 
cles here are very much flatter and smaller than on either segments 
three and four. They are here about the size of a four-anna piece, and 
they seem to be crowded along the centre line of the body, while the © 
dorsal surface is nearly free from them, and smooth. 
“‘ We next come to the gluteal segment. It is in this portion that the 
boiler-bolt tubercles attain their greatest development, some of them 
being perhaps three-tenths of an inch high. 
“The gluteal segment is laterally crossed by three ridges of skin. 
The first, which is the only one indicated in the drawing, goes right 
across the buttock. In some animals there is an indication of a second 
below this, and about fourteen inches lower down a third, which only 
goes about a quarter of the way across. The tail is almost concealed in 
