432 OX THE FOaSIIi BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



rhinoceros of Abyssinia is two-horned, and resembles that of the Capet 

 the figure of which has been given by M. Barrow. But supposing even 

 that Bruce really saw the animal which he represents, it might be pro- 

 bably but an individual accidentally two-homed of the Indian species, or 

 with incisive teeth. It would deviate still less from this species than 

 the rhinoceros of Sumatra, which is also tioo-horned. 



In fine, M. Burchel (Journ. de Phys., Aug. 1817), assures us that he 

 saw in Africa a tioo-homed rhinoceros, which was much larger than the 

 ordinary one, the upper lip of which did not terminate in a moveable 

 point, but was short and truncated : which induced him to give this 

 animal the name of rhinoceros simus. From the tables of the measures 

 which this traveller joins to his description, this rhinoceros simus might 

 also have the head much larger in proportion to the body, than the 

 common two-horned, the bodies of these two species being as 11 to 13, 

 and the heads as 13 to 21. It is much to be desired, that naturalists 

 should obtain a more complete description of this rhinoceros and par- 

 ticularly a good figure of its skull. 



If this species, which has more probability than that of Bruce, comes 

 to be confirmed, it will raise the number of living rhinoceroses to five. 



Additions to this Article. 



From the communications sent by MM. Diard andDuvaucel, and the 

 capture made at the Cape by M. Delalande, the King's Cabinet has the 

 advantage of possessing at present, and of presenting to naturalists, the 

 four species of rhinoceroses — that of India, Java, Sumatra, and the Cape, 

 perfectly prepared, all placed opposite each other. They present ex- 

 ternal characters, independent of those which we have pointed out from 

 their skeleton, a resume of which will not be unacceptable here. 



The one-horned rhinoceros of Java has the skin all covered with small 

 angular hard scales, resembling those of the shields which cover the 

 shoulders of the tatoos. It has a transverse fold behind the shoulders, 

 another before the thighs, a longitudinal fold on the upper part of each 

 thigh ; the skin of its neck is very much plaited, and there arises from 

 it a fold, which, uniting with its corresponding one, intercepts on the 

 back part of the neck, a sort of semi-elliptical patch. 



The one-horned rhinoceros of the continent of Asia has the skin 

 unequal, but not covered with small angular scales. Its folds are the 

 same as those on the preceding, exept that the fold which arises from 

 the skin of the neck, traverses the upper part of the shoulder obliquely, 

 and terminates behind, without uniting it to the corresponding one, nor 

 forming on the back of the neck, that semi-elliptical portion which dis- 

 tinguishes the rhinoceroses of Java. 



The two-horned rhinoceros of Sumatra has the skin, in some places, 

 as it were, scabby, but every where covered with hairs, which are thin 

 set, black, rigid, nearly an inch long; they are thick enough on the 

 legs. The folds of the neck are not so thick, those behind the shoul- 

 ders and before the thighs less deep, and there is no transverse fold 

 either on the shoulder or on the croup. 



It is very probable, according to M. Diard, that it is this latter ani- 

 mal which has been given for a hippopotamus. 



Our great rhinoceros of the continent is 10 feet long by 4| feet high; 



