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TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
what more advanced in age than that figured by- 
Edwards and Dr. Parsons. 
TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
Rhinoceros Bicofiiis. R. cormbus duobus. Lin. Sjst. Nat. Gniel. 
A 57- 
Rhinoceros with two horns. 
Sparmann act. Holm. 1778. 
Two-horned Rhinoceros. Pennant ^adr. i, p. 150. Buf.suppl.6, 
pl.^. 
This species is found in various parts of Af- 
rica, and seems to have been the kind which was 
known to the ancient Romans, and by them ex- 
hibited in their pubhc 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. 
