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THE TWO-HORNED SUMATRAN 

 RHINOCEROS. 



Rhinoceros Sumatranu*. 

 PLATE XI 



Sumatran Rhinoceros, Sell, Phil. Trans. Rhinoceros 

 tie Sumatra, F. Cuv. Mammiff. R. Bicornis Sumatranus, 

 Griff. Cuv. Synopsis. Desmarest, Mammalogie, ii. 401. 



ONE of the oldest authenticated descriptions of 

 this animal is always referred to, as given by 

 Mr William Bell, surgeon at Bencoolen, in the 

 Transactions of the Philosophical Society. That 

 gentleman made his observations from an animal, 

 shot about ten miles from Fort Maryborough, within 

 a day from its death, a male, four feet four inches 

 high at the shoulder, and about eight feet five 

 inches high. He judges, from its appearance, 

 that it had not reached maturity. The shape of 

 the animal was much like that of a hog. The 

 general colour, a brownish ash ; under the belly, 

 between the legs, and fold of the skin, a dirty 

 flesh colour. The ears were small and pointed, 



