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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-h orned 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 Buifon, 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 
