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PROF. FLOWER ON RHINOCEROS BICORNIS. [NoV. 19, 



(Gavceus gaurus). The other is the ' Sapio ' of the Malays. It is 

 black ; but has the belly, the inner sides of both fore and hind legs, 

 and stockings chestnut ; the grey patch on the forehead is rusty, and 

 the insides of the ears are strongly tinged with chestnut. I have 

 seen an old bull, standiug over 1 8 hands, with massive horns, coloured 

 thus ; and the other day Dr. E. A. Travers shot, in Jelebu, a young 

 bull almost exactly the size of the Sladang now sent, and it was 

 coloured exactly like the large bull. The quite young of this form 

 are said to be entirely chestnut, and the cows to have the chestnut 

 of the stockings, belly, and inner sides of the less darker and richer 

 coloured than in the bulls. There is, I think, no doubt upon the 

 subject ; the Malays, who are not likely to make a mistake in such 

 a matter, recognize two species.*' 



Prof. Flower exhibited the skin of the face of a male African 

 Rhinoceros {Rhinoceros bicor?iis), shot by Sir John C. Willoughby, 

 Bart., on the eastern side of the base of Kilimanjaro mountain. In 

 addition to the two normal horns, it presented a third, of irregular 

 form, placed in the median line on the lower part of the forehead. 

 Prof. Flower made the following remarks on this specimen : — 

 "The anterior horn is 13| inches long, measured alongits curved 

 anterior surface, or 1 2 inches measured in a straight line from the 

 side of the base to the apex, and is 20 inches in circumference at 





Skiu of face of Bkinoceros hicornis with third (abnormal) horn. 



the base. The apex is considerably worn and polished. The base 

 of the second horn is, as usual, in contact with the first, and it is 

 2 inches shorter, measuring 10 inches along the side from base to apex. 

 It is more upright and compressed than the anterior horn. There is 

 an interval of 4 inches between the hinder edge of the base of this 

 and the front of the third horn. This supplementary horn is 5| inches 

 in height and 17^ in circumference at the base, which has an 

 irregular, unsymmetrical, somewhat triangular form. It is composed 

 of the same fibrous structure as the normal horns, but of a coarser 

 character, and showing a tendency to split up into columnar masses, 



