SINGLE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 5201 
The first specimen of the common or Indian 
Rhinoceros ever imported into Europe since the 
time of the Romans, is supposed to have been that 
which was presented to Emanuel^ king of Portu- 
gal^ in the year 1513. It gave rise to the first 
figure of the Rhinoceros by Albert Durer; but it 
is concluded, and not without good reason, that he 
never saw the animal himself, but received from 
some correspondent the drawing from which he 
executed his figure, which evidently appears to 
have been decorated with fictitious folds, plaits, 
scales, and scollopings, and, besides the horn on the 
iiose^ has a smaller one situated on the back of 
the neck. This figure of Albert Durer s has been 
frequently copied in works on natural history, and 
occurs in Gesner^ Aldrovandus, &c. &c. Tlie other 
figures of the Rhinoceros, afterwards published, 
though free from Albert Durer's errors, were still 
faulty; and it was not till the year 1743 that a 
faithful representation of this animal was presented 
to the public. This appeared in the Philosophi- 
cal Transactions, and the figure was executed un- 
der the superintendance of Dr. Parsons, an ex- 
cellent zoologist of that period. The celebrated 
Edwards also, in the first volume of his Glean- 
ings of Natural History," published a beautiful 
representation of the same specimen. The ani- 
mal, however, was but young, and the horn, of 
course, but in its first approach towards elonga- 
tion. The figure in the Count de BufFon's Natu- 
ral History seems to have been the next authentic 
representation^ and appears to have been some- 
