MALAYAN RHINOCEROSES 
twigs, bulbous roots grubbed out by its horn, and the like. 
Pollok *° says that in Burma the swamps they frequent are 
quaking bogs and hence they are little molested. They are 
likely to come forth after dark to feed, and the natives some- 
times kill them by making an ambuscade at one of the places to 
which they regularly go to deposit their dung, — a curious habit 
of all rhinoceroses, and to some extent of wild perissodactyls 
generally, and even of the antelopes. 
Over the same country, except Java, is scattered the smallest 
of all living rhinoceroses, — the Sumatran or Sondaic species, 
which is singular in hav- 
ing two horns and a bristly 
coat of thin but long hair, 
forming decided fringes on 
the ears in some specimens. 
The skin is rough, granu- 
lar, and blackish. The 
Chinese demand for its 
horns has nearly extermi- 
nated this species near set- 
tlements, but in the interior 
it still is plentiful. 
Let us turn now to 
Africa. 
“Of the rhinoceroses,”’ 
wrote Gordon Cumming in 
1845, ‘‘there are four varieties in South Africa, distinguished by 
the Bechuanas by the names of the borélé, or black jgican 
rhinoceros; the keitloa, or two-horned black rhinoce- Species. 
ros; the muchocho, or common white rhinoceros; and the ko- 
baoba, or long-horned white rhinoceros.” This was the general 
opinion until scientific examination showed that only two kinds 
were separable: the “black” or long-lipped, and the ‘‘ white” or 
square-mouthed; but there is really no difference in their color, 
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