94 CHIT 



of the I . re is the 



Then : 0ra - 



th< dull c 



.g, may well suit 1 

 marshes it inhabit: 

 is a good example of ru- 

 ing amongst the boulder- at i the 

 light, is said to be extrem* 

 ipirs, both in America and Asia, foil 

 Mie^r surroundings, and yet area? 

 d of living animals. Their dark 



^ed and spotted with wl pots 



g arranged lonr. } . 



emery alike in ai ' bted 



but that this isftRjOY (l/7\ >UHJ/T //OlflHMA , j s a 



natural growth pa^ 

 forms, which an 

 being correct. 



In the several sr irly 



uniform, and th- that 



they are more hairy and j ihick h com- 



posite or tessellated structure, not by differences of colour, but by 

 differences of texture, being broken up in the Indian animals into 

 great masses, like armour-plates, separated by more flexible gro j 

 The continuous barrel-shaped area from behind the shoulders to 

 the hind- legs, together with the plate covering the rump, correspond 

 rather closely with the region that is white v tapir. In 



the young African rhinoceros there are he the 



back and flanks, at first sight suggi bowing 



through the skin, and which, ii 

 differences in colour, would tn, 

 patterned creature. In the Ai 



the hide is marked with a se ; iich 



again only lack differences of picuous 



pattern. 



Except that foals are rather mo: -han ad 



and frequently have a conti ct hair 



:ng along the middle line o 



:.ffer very little from the, pattern, 



iapplings and stripes ar 

 pres <Q adults, they are alwa als, and 



