202 TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 



what more advanced in age than that figured by 

 Edwards and Dr. Parsons. 



TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 



Rhinoceros Bicornis. R. cornubus duobus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



P-S7> 

 Rhinoceros with two horns. 

 Spar matin act. Holm. 1 778. 

 Two-horned Rhinoceros. Pennant Shiadr. i.p. 150. Buff.suppl.6. 



pi. 6. 



This species is found in various parts of Af- 

 rica, and seems to have been the kind which Avas 

 known to the ancient Romans, and by them ex- 

 hibited in their public shows and combats of ani- 

 mals. In size it equals the common or single-horned 

 species; and its habits and manner of feeding are 

 the same : but it differs greatly in the appearance 

 of its skin, which, instead of the vast and regu- 

 larly marked armour-like folds of the former, has 

 merely a very slight wrinkle across the shoulders, 

 and on the hinder parts, with a few fainter wrinkles 

 on the sides, so that, in comparison, with the com- 

 mon Rhinoceros, it appears almost smooth: the 

 skin, however, is rough or tuberculated, espe- 

 cially in the larger specimens : but what consti- 

 tutes the specific or principal distinction is, that 

 the nose is furnished with two horns, one of which 

 is smaller than the other, and situated above it, 

 or higher up on the front. These horns are said 

 to be loose when the animal is in a quiet state, 



