160 RHINOCEROS. 



worn-out brush. It grows from the skin only, in 

 the same manner as the hair, a circumstance 

 which entirely divests of improbability the asser- 

 tion of its sometimes being seen loose, although by 

 no means so loose as some writers have supposed. 

 Nor is it at all extraordinary that the Rhinoceros 

 should possess the power of moving it to a certain 

 degree, since the Hog, to which, in the natural 

 arrangement, it so closely approaches, has a much 

 greater power of moving its bristles, which, if 

 concreted, would form a horn of the same nature/'* 

 The teeth vary considerably at different periods 

 of their age ; their feet have three toes, apparent 

 externally, as if shod with blunt hoofs ; and the 

 real structure of their bones, with that of the 

 other parts of the skeleton, will be seen in our 

 first plate. 



The Rhinoceri go sometimes in pairs and in 

 small groups, but at other times are gregareous. 

 They feed entirely on vegetables, tender branches 

 of trees, and the grasses ; and their interior struc- 

 ture, though simple, is very ample, the stomach 

 and caecum very large, the intestines very long. 

 The upper lip is rather long, elongated into a 

 narrow point, and prehensile, thus continuing 

 the form of the proboscidean animals, and is used 

 in the same way to collect and gather in the 



* Burch. Trav. ii. p. 76. 



