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a corresponding backward curvature. An anterior horn of this 

 small Rhinoceros in the British Museum measures thirty- two 

 inches along its front, and is seventeen inches in span from base 

 to tip. We have seen a pair of horns of this Rhinoceros beautifully 

 carved and polished, and set with the bases upwards and on a 

 parallel in a carved black wooden stand, similar to those upon 

 which Chinese metallic mirrors are mounted ; and the Chinamen 

 give such extravagant prices for fine specimens that they are 

 exceedingly difficult to be got hold of by any one else. We have 

 seen a pair upon the head, the value of which was estimated at 

 five guineas ; and the price, as usual, increases with the size and 

 length to a sum much higher. 



The Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros has a comparativelj^ smooth 

 hide, which is somewhat thinly, though conspicuously, covered 

 with short and coarsish black hair throughout : there are folds 

 about the neck, a distinct fold behind the fore quarters, a slight 

 fold, or rather crease, anterior to the hind limbs, and another 

 slight fold at some distance above the hock; but nothing com- 

 parable to the plaits of mail of the two One-horned Rhinoceroses. 

 Inside of the folds the skin is of a sullied pinkish colour, and else- 

 where its hue is brownish ashy. Its hide is rough, but not thick 

 or hard, being easily cut through with a knife ; where thickest 

 it does not exceed one third of an inch, decreasing to a quarter of 

 an inch on the belly. The form of the skull approximates to certain 

 of the extinct Rhinoceroses of the European-Asiatic continent, 

 which were also two-horned, and the huge northern (extinct) Pt,. 

 tichorhinus, which is known to have been thickly clad with woolly 

 hair. The Indian R. plafyrhinns (likewise extinct), of the late 

 Dr. Valconer more especially, is just an immensely magnified 

 representation of the diminutive existent C. suinatranus. 



The earliest description of the Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros 

 is by Mr. William Bell, then surgeon at Bencoolen, in Sumatra ; 

 it is to be found in the P/iilosojjhical Transactions for 1793. In the 

 same year the second edition of Pennant's Sisfory of Quadrupeds 

 appeared, giving a slight notice of the species, also as an in- 

 habitant of Sumatra ; but little was at that time linown of the 

 geographical limits of the range of particular species, and Pennant 

 never suspected its non-identity with the then known Two-horned 

 Rhinoceros of Africa. Bell gave a tolerable figure of the beast. 



