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proportion of short and strong hairs. The folds 

 in the skin, with the exception of those on the 

 neck, are shallow, and there is only one large one 

 behind the fore legs, and another before the hind 

 quarter. The height of this animal is only given 

 at about three feet ten inches. 



We have used the figure of F. Cuvier, and 

 regret that there seems to be little known of the 

 habits of this animal, farther than inhabiting the 

 island of Sumatra. 



These three species seem to be ascertained as 

 clearly distinct in the Asiatic continent. De 

 Blainville gave to another, which he characterized 

 from the skull, the title of R. Camperii ; but 

 the species remains in uncertainty, and can scarcely 

 be now admitted, without farther examination. 

 From the examination of the skull, G. Cuvier 

 thought that it might be a young species of R. 

 Sondaicus. 



The species of Africa, which are authenticated 

 with any certainty, are only two, R. Africanus 

 and /?. simus, Burcliell. 



