OX THE BONES OF THE RHINOCEROS. 431 



Being of a somewhat smaller size than the rhinoceros of India, that 

 of Java has all its physiognomy ; its hide is equally divided, by large 

 folds, into compartments similar to pieces of cuirass ; its teeth are 

 similar, and it is by the details of its osteology, as we shall see here- 

 after, that it is best distinguished. The female obviously differs from 

 the male by its horn, which is reduced to a semi-ovoid tuberosity. The 

 fcetus has, from the moment of its birth, the same folds in the skin as 

 the adult. This animal goes by the name of Badak *. 



The same young naturalists have satisfied themselves that this rhi- 

 noceros, peculiar up to the present to the isle of Java, is not a mere 

 variety of the two-horned one of Sumatra. Besides the differences which 

 I already remarked, they have remarked others in their skin, and in their 

 entire structure. 



With respect to the two-horned rhinoceros of the Cape, there has 

 been for this long time back, no doubt; but that it is a species which 

 will not allow itself to be confounded with any other. 



Not only its skin has no folds ; not only the general form of its head 

 is different ; not only has it uniformly two horns ; but it never has more 

 than twenty-eight teeth, all molars; it always wants incisors, and has 

 not even room for them at the anterior extremity of its jaws. Its in- 

 cisive bone is much too small to contain them, and even at its lower 

 jaw, the molar teeth, far from leaving, as in the other rhinoceroses, a 

 great empty space between them and the incisive edge, are so close, 

 that incisors could hardly hold between them. 



All these points result from the description given by Camper, of this 

 species of rhinoceros, and an acurate idea may be formed of it by con- 

 sulting our plate 40, where the teeth of the one-horned and the two- 

 homed species are represented, and figures 6 and 7 of our plate 42. 



Figure 6 is a copy of that which Camper thrice gave of a skull of an 

 adult two-horned rhinoceros of the Cape. Fig. 7, is that of a young 

 skull of the same species, belonging to our museums, which has but five 

 molars come forward. It is found perfectly similar to that given by 

 Sparmann, Voyage, French Trans, torn, ii, plate 3. 



We see that these two skulls perceptibly differ from one another 



only in a little greater proportional length in the adult — a natural result 



of the development of two additional molars, on each side, in each jaw. 



Such are the rhinoceroses discovered up to the present day, living 



and sufficiently described or observed. 



I know that Bruce f published a figure of a two-homed rhinoceros 

 very different from that of the Cafe, and from that of Sumatra, which 

 he states he saw in Abyssinia ; but this figure is only a copy of that of the 

 one-horned given by Buffon, to which Bruce had merely added a horn. Did 

 he determine to draw this figure thus, because he had really seen 

 another which it resembled? or did he only commit a plagiarism which 

 nothing can excuse ? I shall readily adopt this latter supposition, 

 since M .Salt J, a more credible author than Bruce, assures us that the 



* These details are extracted from a manuscript memoir of MM. Diard and Du- 

 ■vaucel. The name Abada, given to the rhinoceros by several authors, is a corruption 

 of Badak. 



f Voyage to the Sources of the Nile, p. 25. 



X Travels in Abyssinia, App., No. ii, French trans, ii, p. 331. 



