180 TWO-HORNED SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS. 



lined and edged with short black hair. The horns 

 were black, the larger was placed immediately 

 above the nose, pointing upwards, and was bent 

 a little back ; it was about nine inches long. The 

 small horn was four inches long, of a pyramidal 

 shape, flattened a little, and placed above the 

 eyes, rather a little more forward, standing in a 

 line with the upper horn immediately above it. 

 The neck was thick and short ; the skin, on the 

 under side, thrown into folds, and these again 

 wrinkled. The body was bulky and round ; and 

 from the shoulder ran a line or fold, though but 

 faintly marked : there were several other folds and 

 wrinkles on the body and legs, and the whole 

 gave rather the appearance of softness. The 

 whole skin of the animal is rough, and covered 

 very thinly with short black hair. The skin was 

 not more than one-third of an inch in thickness 

 at the strongest part, and under the belly scarcely 

 one-fourth.* 



In 1825, F. Cuvier gave another figure of this 

 Rhinoceros in his Mammifferes, which nearly 

 agrees with what we have detailed above, 

 the colour is a dull brown, the skin is nearly 

 quite smooth, and without any of the tuberculated 

 structure, which is so peculiarly seen in R* 

 JSondaicus, and it is furnished with a greater 



* W. BelPs Philosophical Transactions, for 1J93. 



