one-horned Rhinoceros. 1 1 9 



much longer and narrower; it is 0*15 in length and 0-05 in 

 breadth; the exterior edge of this bone is nearly as great as 

 the interior, while in the elephant it is niueh smaller; the 

 ridce of the pubis begins at the upper part'of the neck of 

 the bones of the ilium ; the ova! foramina are broader than 

 they are long; the t\iberosity of the ischion is at the top 

 very thick and in the form of a hook. 



The femur of the rhinoceros is perhaps still more remark- 

 able than its humerus; its upper part is verv nmch flattened 

 from before backwards ; the eminence, which 1 call the third 

 trochanter, projects very much, and forms a hook which as- 

 cend* to touch a hock which descends from the common 

 great trochanter, in such a manner that there remains an 

 oval hole between these two eminences ; the lower pulley is 

 very narrow before ; the interior condyle is much more pro- 

 minent, and ascends higher than the other behind ; the two 

 condyles are at a greater distance than they are before, but 

 they make nearly the same projection. The head of the 

 tibia is an equilateral triangle, only the interior posterior 

 angle forms a very strong tuberosity below the rotula. The 

 lower part of the tibia is a little flattened from behind back- 

 wards; the perone is slender, compressed laterally, and 

 ^welled at its two extremities*. The calcaneum is thick 

 and short; its anterior or astragalian face is triangular. 

 There are two large facets for the astragalus; that of the 

 interior sides is lengthened into a kind of tail along the 

 lower edge of that face. In my opinion this is a character 

 proper to distinguish the species. The facet which touches 

 the cuboid is very small ; the facets of the astragalus are a 

 counterpart of those of the calcaneum; the two edges of its 

 pulley are of equal height; the part of the anterior face, 

 which touches the cuboid, is narrow. 



The cuboid has behind a long ayd thick protuberance ; on 

 the interior side of the foot there is a similar production by 

 a supernumerary bone attaalied to the scaphoid, to the inte- 

 rior cuneiform, and the interior metatarsian; the scaphoid 

 then has three articular facets on its anterior face ; the inte- 

 rior cuneiform is much smaller than the other. 



* Length of the femur - o'5 



Irs breatkh at the top - o'a 



Breadth at tlie bottom - 0-15 . 



Length of the tibia - 0-4 



Its breadth at the top - 0-14 



Breadth at the bottom - o-ii 



Di:imettr of the body - 0-09 



Length of the perone - 034. 



Breadth at the bort< 111 - o'05 



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