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a second and posterior horn, which could scarcely fail to have 

 been shown in the original drawing. Even at that early age 

 a rudiment of the posterior horn must needs have been suf- 

 ficiently apparent in the living animal, as shown by Schlegel's 

 figure of a still younger calf. The comparatively rough skin 

 (although in so very juvenile an individual), the blackish- 

 brown colour of that skin, and especially the length and pecu- 

 liar form of the tail combine to identify the animal with the 

 small blackish species inhabiting the Tenasserim provinces and 

 Malayan peninsula ; but still I do not understand its being 

 represented as so very slightly hairy, especially upon the ears, 

 which is hardly to be sufficiently accounted for by the youth 

 of the particular specimen. 



M. Frederic Cuvier's other figure, which he assigns to 

 JR. sumatrensiSy appears to me to have been made up from that 

 of Bell, aided and partly misled by the remark of Raffles 

 concerning the plaits or creases of the skin. I do not believe 

 that any original figure of a Ceratorhinus would have repre- 

 sented the crease on the flanks as extending upwards across 

 the loins. The attitude and position of the limbs are essen- 

 tially the same as in Bell's figure ; and so also is the amount of 

 development of the horns ; and the accompanying descriptions 

 and measurements of both sumatrensis and supposed yavanicws 

 are compilations. Moreover it is erroneously asserted that 

 R. sumatrensis was named R. sondaicus by Messrs. Raffles and 

 Horsfield, inasmuch as that name was first applied by George 

 Cuvier to the lesser one-horned species, which is the only rhi- 

 noceros that inhabits Sunda, i. e. the western half of Java. 

 It follows that F. Cuvier's figure assigned to sumatrensis is 

 of no authority whatever in determining whether either or 

 which of the species in question is properly entitled to that 

 designation. 



Lastly, the figures assigned to R. sumatrensis (adult and 

 young) by Professors Temminck and H. Schlegel were made 

 up from stuffed specimens in the Royal Museum of Natural 

 History at Leyden ; and the fore limbs of the adult are repre- 

 sented as being much too slender. Otherwise those figures 

 resemble R. lasiotis rather than the small blackish species, and 

 have the comparatively short tail of the former ; but they are 

 represented as being very inconspicuously clad with minute 

 hairs, which would scarcely be remarked unless especially 

 looked for. I remember distinctly that the stuffed adult spe- 

 cimen in the Leyden Museum is hairless (unless to a very 

 slight extent where least exposed), and that the young (under 

 glass) was well clad ; but not suspecting at the time a plurality 

 of species of the particular type, nor how such species have 



