of Asiatic Uoo-Tiorned Rhinoceros. 401 



would suit lasiotis rather than the other ; and I think it pro- 

 bable that the second or posterior horn will prove to be much 

 shorter than in the smaller species. The British-Museum 

 specimen, upon which the name Crossiiwa.s founded, measures 

 32 inches over the curvature, and is 17 inches in span from 

 base to tip. 



R.sumatrensis was originally described, and somewhat rudely 

 figured, by Surgeon Bell in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' 

 for 1793 (p. 282, pi. 2). His specimen is stated to have been 

 a male ; " the height of the shoulder was 4 feet 4 inches" (over 

 the curvature of the body?); "from the tip of the nose to the 

 end of the tail 8 feet 5 inches. From the appearance of the 

 teeth and bones it was but young, and probably not near its 

 full size. The general colour was a hrownisli ash ; under the 

 belly, between the legs and folds of the skin, a dirty flesh 



colour The ears were small and j^ointed^ lined and 



edged with short black hair The whole skin of the 



animal is rough ^ and covered very thinly xoith short black hairT 

 Sir T. Stamford Raffles remarks of the animal, as observed by 

 himself in Sumatra, that " its hide is much softer and more 

 flexible than in the Indian one, and is not, like it, corrugated 

 into plates of mail ; it has, however, some doublings or folds, 

 particularly round the neck, shoulders, and haunches, rather 

 Trior e distinct and defined than in BelVs drawing ^^ (Trans, Linn. 

 Soc. vol. xiii. p. 268). Upon the whole, this description 

 applies fairly to the stuffed specimen in the British Museum, 

 which is believed to have been procured at Pinang, meaning 

 the adjacent mainland of province Wellesley ; but it does not 

 suit B. lasiotis, either as regards the prevailing shagginess of 

 the hide, the length and colour of the hairy vesture, the very 

 conspicuous long pendent fringe of hair bordering (but not 

 lining) the ear-conch, and the copiously tufted tail. But the 

 latter is represented in Bell's figure as being slightly tufted, 

 and not so long and tapering as in the animal from Malacca, 

 the tail of which had some scattered hairs upon it but was not 

 distinctly tufted ; in the British-Museum specimen* the tail is 

 mutilated. Moreover the skin of B. lasiotis would rather be 

 described as smooth than as rough ; and in this respect it con- 

 trasts remarkably with that of the smaller species. 



In his ' Histoire Naturelle des Mammif^res ' M. Frdd^ric 

 Cuvier supplies two figures assignable to this type of rhinoceros 

 ( Ceraforhinus, Gray) , one of which is obviously from a drawing 

 from life of a very young calf, which he erroneously refers to 

 the conspicuously distinct single-horned rhinoceros of Java ; 

 and in his supposition of its representing the latter, he either 

 overlooked or possibly ventured to suppress the indication of 



