516 Miscellaneous. 
The young animal, which we may reckon to be ten months old, is 
now 7 feet long and 6! fect in girth at the middle of the barrel-shaped 
trunk, which is supported, clear of the ground, on very short and 
thick legs, each terminated by four spreading hoofs : the innermost is 
the smallest on the fore-foot ; the two middle ones, answermg to those 
which are principally developed in the hog, are the largest in both 
feet. The hind-limb is buried in the skin of the flank nearly to the pro- 
minence of the heel. Thick flakes of cuticle are m process of detach- 
ment from the sole. There is a well-defined white patch behind 
each foot, but I looked m vain for any mdications of the glandular 
orifice which exists in the same part of the rhinoceros. The naked 
hide covering the broad back and sides is of a dark india-rubber 
colour, impressed by numerous fine wrinkles crossing each other, but 
disposed almost transversely. When I first saw the beast it had just 
left its bath, and a minute drop of a glistening secretion was exuding 
from each of the conspicuous muco-sebaceous pores which are di- 
spersed over the whole integument, at intervals of from eight lines to 
aninch. This gave the hide, as it glistened im the sunshine, a very 
peculiar aspect. When the animal was younger the secretion had a 
reddish colour, and, being poured out more abundantly, the whole 
surface became painted over with it every time he quitted his bath. 
The integument is impressed by a groove which passes transversely 
from shoulder to shoulder; and there are two transverse nuchal 
folds, crossed by a median longitudinal furrow, the lateral moieties of 
the strong ‘ligamentum nuchee’ forming a pair of well-marked pro- 
minences behind the occiput. The ears are very short, conical, fringed 
with short scattered hairs along the lower half of their thick borders, 
and beset with a few clumps of short hairs upon the middle of their 
inner surface. It moves them about with much vivacity. The dark 
colour of the bedy extends forwards along the middle of the upper 
part of the head and more faintly along the cheeks: the skin around 
the ears is of a light reddish-brown colour and almost flesh-coloured 
round the eyelids, which defend the peculiarly situated and prominent 
eyes : there is a single groove or fold above the upper eyelid, and two 
eurved grooves below the lower one. At first sight they seem to be 
devoid of eyelashes, but on a close inspection a few very short hairs 
may be seen on the thick rounded margin of the upper lid. There 
is a caruncle or protuberance on the middle of the outer surface of the 
nictitating lid. The colour of the iris is a dark brown: the pupil is 
a small transversely oblong aperture. The eyeball is relatively small, 
and is remarkable for the extent of the movements of protraction and 
retraction. The nostrils, situated on prominences, which the animal 
has the power of raising, on the upper part of the broad and massive 
‘muzzle, are short oblique slits, guarded by two valves, which can be 
opened and closed spontaneously, like the eyelids. The movements 
of these apertures are most conspicuous when the beast is in his 
favourite element. The wide mouth is chiefly remarkable for the 
“ upward curve of its angles towards the eyes, which gives a quaintly 
comic expression to the massive countenance. The short and small 
milk-tusks project a little, and the minute deciduous incisors appear 
