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in the great Indian species, differs slightly in the arrangement of these 

 creases the fold in front of the shoulder runs right across from side 

 to side of the neck, like that behind the shoulder and over the hips. 

 In the Sondaic Rhinoceros, also, the skin is not tubercled, and the 

 nose-horn is confined to the males at any rate as a rule. 



This species usually frequents hilly districts, though it also occurs 

 in the marshy alluvial soil of the Sunderbunds. It frequents tree 

 rather than grass jungle, and is said to be more harmless than the 

 great Indian Rhinoceros. It has once been exhibited in the London 

 Zoological Gardens. 



THE ASIATIC TWO-HORNED 

 RHINOCEROS 



(Rhinoceros sumatrensis) 



THE Hairy Rhinoceros, as this species might well be called, for its 

 body is thinly covered with hair and its ears fringed therewith, is 

 the smallest of all known kinds, not reaching five feet at the shoulder, 

 and being sometimes less than four. Its skin shows fewer folds than 

 those of the large Asiatic kinds, and only the fold behind the shoulder 

 crosses the back. 



In addition to the horn on the nose, there is another over the 

 eyes ; the front one grows to a considerable length, well over two feet. 

 This species much resembles the last in range and habits, being a 

 forest animal, found from Assam to Borneo. It has been exhibited in 

 the Zoological Gardens of London and Calcutta, and young ones have 

 been born in the latter place, while in the London Docks a young 

 one was produced aboard ship by a female which had just been 

 imported from Singapore. 



THE COMMON AFRICAN RHINOCEROS 



(Rhinoceros bicornis) 



THE " Black Rhinoceros," as this species is often rather absurdly 

 called for it is grey, like Rhinoceroses generally is the commonest 



