130 DR. J. ANDERSON ON RHINOCEROS SUMATRENSIS. [Feb. 6, 



4 feet 6 inches high at the shoulders, and about 8 feet from the snout 

 to the root of the tail ; it weighs nearly 2000 lbs. 



The deep and rather short trunk is set on low stout limbs. The 

 head is not much tapered ; the anterior horn, low and rounded, is 

 placed above the nostril ; the posterior horn is conical and situated 

 above the eye ; the two are separated by a considerable interval. 

 The ears are full and more rounded than pointed, and fringed with 

 long, rather drooping hairs. The eye is small. The upper lip is 

 anteriorly pointed and prehensile. The tail has numerous transverse 

 folds, and reaches nearly to a line with the groin, having long hair 

 on the anterior and posterior borders of its lower third. The skin 

 is ashy grey, and covered with bristles about one inch in length, and 

 its tubercles are small and flat. A pendulous fold on the side of the 

 neck, with the skin behind it thrown into small loose folds ; a fold 

 behind the shoulder, across the back from side to side, with a fold 

 at its lower extremity across the fore leg ; a lumbar fold from the 

 groin, but not reaching to the back ; two short folds behind the 

 haunches, with another fold below them, across the leg. 



The hindmost horn is the smallest and about two inches in height ; 

 it has a quadrangular base, with two of the angles external (one 

 posterior and the other anterior), and its apex is conical. It is placed 

 between the eyes, but its posterior basal angle is slightly behind the 

 external margin of the eye, while the anterior angle is about three 

 inches before the inner margin of the eye. The anterior horn, sepa- 

 rated from the former by about three inches, is full and rounded, 

 and, although about twice the size of the posterior horn, does not 

 exceed it in height ; it is placed above the nostril, to which, how- 

 ever, its hinder margin is slightly posterior. 



A most striking feature of this individual, and one which I have 

 not seen exemplified in three adult heads of this species from Bur- 

 mah which I have examined, nor have seen referred to in any descrip- 

 tion of the species, is the long drooping hair of the margins of the 

 ears. In adult males and females the margins of the ears are fringed 

 with strong erect black hairs tipped with brown, and almost one inch, 

 or slightly more, in length ; but in this individual these hairs are 

 nearly five inches long, with their terminal not so bristly as their ba- 

 sal portions — and with this result, that the former droops downwards 

 over the latter. It appears to me that the more delicate portion of 

 the hairs is worn off as the animal increases in years, probably by the 

 friction to which the ears are subjected in the creature's wanderings 

 through the dense jungle to which it is so partial. The hairs are 

 longest and most numerous immediately behind the tip, and shortest 

 on the anterior margin, the three basal inches of which are all but 

 nude. The insides of the ears are covered with very short greyish 

 hairs about the sixteenth of an inch in length. 



The shoulder-fold is the most strongly marked of all the folds, 

 which are much less decidedly developed than in the two other species 

 of Asiatic Rhinoceros. It is prolonged over the back from side to 

 side, and below passes on to the outside of the limb, for a short way 

 at the elbow-joint. At the latter point there is another strong fold 



