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that tapirs in the wilds suffer from an eye disease and are often 

 blind." (Ulmer, in Miller, 1942, p. 161.) 



Various authors, including De Beaufort (1926, p. 61), extend the 

 Malay Tapir's range to Borneo, while others consider it confined to 

 Sumatra within the Malay Archipelago. 



"It is not yet certain that the tapir has been met with in Borneo, 

 although there are persistent reports that an animal of its size and 

 appearance exists in the interior of the country. It would be wise to 

 suspend our judgment for the present and content ourselves with the 

 fact that so far it has only made its appearance on the North 

 Bornean postage stamps!" (Mjoberg, 1930, p. 22.) 



Family RHINOCEROTIDAE: Rhinoceroses 



Two genera (Ceratotherium and Diceros) , of two forms each, 

 occur in southern and eastern Africa, and from the Sudan westward 

 to Nigeria. Two additional genera (Rhinoceros and Dicerorhinus) , 

 consisting of four or five forms, range from India and Indo-China 

 through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. Unfortu- 

 nately, a work of the present scope requires a discussion of every 

 living form of rhinoceros. 



Great Indian Rhinoceros; Great One-horned Rhinoceros. 

 Rhinoceros unicorne (Fr.) 



RHINOCEROS UNICORNIS Linnaeus 



[Rhinoceros} unicornis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 56, 1758. ("Habitat 

 in Africa, India" (Linnaeus) ; "probably the sub-Himalayan Tarai of 

 Assam" (Lydekker, 1916, vol. 5, p. 48).) 



FIGS.: Geoffrey and Cuvier, 1824, vol. 2, pis. 306, 307; Gervais, Hist. Nat. 

 Mammif., pt. 2, pi. facing p. 164, 1855; P. L. Sclater, 1876, pi. 95; Royal 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 2, pi. facing p. 464, 1894; Lydekker, 1900, pi. 1, fig. 2; 

 Van der Byl, 1915, pi. 32; Faunthorpe, 1924, pp. 174, 181, figs.; New York 

 Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 27, p. 72, fig., 1924; Jour. Bombay Nat, Hist. Soc., 

 vol. 37, no. 1, suppl., pi. 31, 1934; Pocock, 1937, p. 709, fig. 



With a former range extending from the North-West Frontier 

 Province of India eastward perhaps as far as French Indo-Qiina, 

 this species has more recently become restricted largely or wholly 

 to the Nepal Terai, northern Bengal, and Assam. Its numbers also 

 have greatly diminished. 



This is the largest of the Asiatic rhinoceroses, reaching a height 

 of 6 feet 4 inches at the shoulder and a total length of 14 feet 1 inch, 

 with a horn of 24 inches; fold of skin in front of shoulder not con- 

 tinued across back of neck; other folds behind shoulder, in front of 

 and across thigh, and around the neck; sides of body and upper 

 limbs studded with large rounded tubercles; skin naked except for 

 a fringe of hairs on the margin of the ears and some bristly hairs on 



