H4 MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Rhinoceros.. 



162 2. Two- horned Rhinoceros. — 2. Rhinoceros bicornis. 2. 

 Has two horns. 



Syft. Nat. ed. x. p. 56. n. 2. Sparman, act Holm.. 1778, trim. 4. n. j. D°. voyage to the Cape- 

 of Good Hope, 4to, London, 1784, vol. ii. 96. pi. 3^ Martial, fpect. epig. 22. Phil, tranf. abr. ix- 

 100. &xi. 9.10. Phil, tranf. lvi. 32. t. 11., Kolben, ii. 101. Flacourt, Madagaf. 395. Lobo, Aby£ 

 230. Bruce, Abyf. v. 85. & fig. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 66.. pi. xv.. 



Inhabits Africa. — The hones of this animal, as we are lately afTured by Pallas, are often found bu- 

 ried even in the north of Ruifia. This fpecies or variety, is formerly mentioned by Paufanias and 

 Martial, is reprefented on the Preneftine pavement, and on a coin of the Roman Emperor Domitian, 

 and is defcribed by Cofmas iEgyptius, who travelled into Ethiopia, in the fixth century, under the 

 reign of Juftinian. The difference between this and the former fpecies can fcarcely be attributed to 

 age or fex •, though Dr Gmelin feems hardly to confider them as different fpecies. The flefh re- 

 fembles that of the hog ; and the vifcera are fimilar to thofe of the horfe ; it has no gall-bladder, and 

 no fore-teeth ; the fecond horn is fituated above the firft, or nafal horn, nearer the fore-head. A 

 variety of this fpecies, having three horns, occurs very rarely •, the third horn being only a kind of 

 excrefcence from one of the other two. 



If both Sparrman and Bruce are faithful in their reprefentations of the Rhinoceros with two horns, 

 the animals they defcribe are by no means of the fame fpecies : The figure given by Mr Bruce ex- 

 actly correfponds with the defcription already given of the one-homed Rhinoceros in every thing but 

 the additional horn, fo that, mutatis mutandis, it may ferye for. either; on the contrary, the figure 

 given by Sparrman differs totally from that of the one-horned fpecies, for the remarkable folds on 

 the ikin are entirely wanting : Sparrman has the good fortune to have the authenticity of his repre- 

 fentation not a little ftrengthened by the figures of two Rhinoeerofes, each with two horns, one 

 on the Preneftine pavement, and another on a medal of Domitian, in both of which the fkin is- 

 fmooth. I am therefore forced to believe that the Abyffinian Rhinoceros, as reprefented by Mr 

 Bruce, is only a variety of the Afiatic,. or one-horned kind, while that of Sparrman is a diftinftly dif- 

 ferent fpecies.— T., 



X.*S UK O T Y R O.—S UKO TTRUS: 

 Has a horn on each fide of the head clofe to the orbits*, 



163 1. Javan Sukotyro. — Sukoiyrus indicus* 



Has a fhort, narrow, upright mane, along the back, from the back of the heati to the: 

 rump. Nieuhoff, voy. to India, in Churchill's coll. ii. 360. & fig- 

 Inhabits the Ifland of Java The Sukotyro, as the Chinefe call it, is a very odd fhaped beaft ; it 



is of the bignefs of a large ox, wkh a fnout like a hog, having two long rough ears, and a thick 

 bufhytail; the eyes are placed upright in the head, quite different from other beafts ; on the fides 

 of the head, next to the eyes, ftand two long horns, or rather teeth, not quite fo thick as thofe of the 

 Elephant ; it feeds on herbage, and is but feldom taken.- this is the defcription given by Mr Nieu- 



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