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but to become firm and immoveable when it is 

 enraged. This observation is confirmed by Dr. 

 Sparman, who observed, in a specimen which he 

 shot in Africa, that they were fixed to the nose 

 by a strong apparatus of muscles and tendons, so 

 as to allow the animal the power of giving them 

 a steady fixture on proper occasions. This, in- 

 deed, is treated by Mr. Bruce, the celebrated 

 Abyssinian traveller, as an absurd idea; but, on 

 inspecting the horns and skin on which they are 

 seated, it does not appear that they are firmly at- 

 tached to or connected with the bone of the 

 cranium. 



Mr. Bruce is also of opinion that the common 

 or Single-horned Rhinoceros is found in many 

 parts of Africa, as well as in Asia ; and in this 

 there surely seems no improbability. 



The figure of the two-horned species in Mr. Pen- 

 nant's History of Quadrupeds seems to represent 

 the whole animal scaly; the roughness of the skin 

 being probably somewhat too harshly expressed 

 in the engraving. 



That in the supplement to Buffon, vol. 6. pi. 6\ 

 is a much superior representation. 



The figure of the Two-horned Rhinoceros, in 

 Mr. Bruce's travels, is unquestionably a copy of 

 Buffon's representation of the common Rhinoce- 

 ros, with the addition of a second horn. Whe- 

 ther this was done merely to save trouble, or whe- 

 ther the specimen seen by Mr. Bruce had really 

 the same kind of folds and roughnesses on its skin 

 as the common species., or, lastly, whether it was 



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