HERBIVORA : RHINOCEROTID^. 

 Fig. 41. 



Elephant. 



RHINOCEROTID^:, OR RHINOCEROS FAMILY. This 

 Family includes huge, bulky animals which have stout 

 legs, and three- or four-toed feet with hoofs of unequal 

 size, and a very large muzzle, and whose body is covered 

 with an exceedingly thick, tough, and naked skin, which 

 lies in folds. They have also incisors in both jaws, and 

 from the top of the muzzle, where the bones are very 

 thick and strong, there arises a solid horn, sometimes 

 two or three feet long, composed of agglutinated fibres 

 similar to those of hair. In some species there are two 

 horns, the hinder one being situated on the frontal bone. 

 The members of this family are the largest of all the 



