BHINOCEROS. 



475 



Rhinoceros inermis, Lesson, Complements du Buffon, ed. 2 i. p 514 

 (1848) ; Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1877, p. 68, pis. i-iii. 



Rhinoceros nasalis and R. floweri, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 1012, 

 1015. 



Gainda, H. ; Gondu, Beng. ; Kunda, Kedi, Kiveda, Naga ; Kyeng, Kyan- 

 tsheny, Burmese ; Bdddk, Malay. 



Fig. 155. Rhinoceros sondaicus. 



Animal altogether smaller, though scarcely, if at all, lower at the 

 shoulder than R. unicornis; head much smaller. Skin naked or 

 nearly so, not tubercular, the epidermis divided by cracks into small, 

 polygonal, subequal scale-like disks throughout the body and limbs. 

 Surface of body divided into shields by folds, as in R. unicornis, but 

 the fold in front of the shoulders is continuous across the back 

 like that behind the shoulders and that in front of the thighs. 

 Neck-folds comparatively little developed. Incisors generally -f ; 

 upper molars smaller and with a simpler pattern than those of R. 

 unicornis ; skull and mandible of less height, mesopterygoid fossa 

 broad. Hinder margin of bony palate produced in the. middle ; a 

 partially ossified septum narium. The horn is frequently, perhaps 

 always, wanting in the female. 



Colour dusky grey throughout. 



Dimensions. Bather less than those of R. unicornis, but most of 

 the measurements published appear to be those either of young 

 animals or of individuals in confinement, which very often do not 

 attain their full growth. A large female, according to Mr. Fraser 

 and Mr. Cockburn, was 5 feet 6 inches high. A skull measures 

 23 inches in basal length, 13-8 in zygomatic breadth. 



Distribution. The Sundarbans and parts of Eastern Bengal; 

 Kinloch shot an undoubted specimen in the Sikhim Terai. From 

 Assam this rhinoceros is found throughout Burma and the Malay 

 Peninsula, and in Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Blyth states that 

 this species was formerly found near Bajmehal, but does not give 

 any reason for the identification. The statement, mentioned by 



