RHINOCEROS SONDAICUS. 
Ord. VP? Pachydermes, Cuvier. 2 <lt? Famille. Pachydermes orrimaires, 
2 d . e Division. 
Ord. II. Bruta, IAnn. Syst. 
Ord. V, Multungula, IUiger. Fam. 18, Nasicomia. 
RHINOCEROS, Linn, Briss. Erxleb. Bodd, Cuv. Geoff. IUig. 
Char. Gen. — Dentes primores his nulli, illis supra duo minuti decidui, infra duo 
minuti conici inter duo majores cylindricos, omnes inclusi. Pro Laniariis 
diastema. Molares complicati tuberculati, supra infraque utrinsecus septem. 
Rostrum productum chilomate obtuso; labro in processum mobilem excurrente. 
Cornu unicum aut duo cornea solida acuta, naso imposita. Auricula oblongae, 
capite multo breviores, basi infundibuliformes. 
Corpus setis raris obsitum. Cauda brevis. Mamma apertae duse ventrales. 
Pedes distinct! ambulatorii, tridactyli, digitis cute obvolutis. Ungues : unguis tres 
insistentcs, omnes anticse. IUiger. 
Rhinoceros cornu unico, rugis colli obsoletis, scutulis epidermidis margine angulatis 
medio concavis setis paucis brevibus obsitis, auribus margine eaudaque subtus 
pilosis. 
IVarak of the Javanese. 
Badah of the Malays, and of the inhabitants of the western parts of Java. 
Rhinoceros sondaicus, Cuvier, in Encycl Method, Mammalog. p. 399, par M. A* G, 
Desmarest, 1822. 
THE Rhinoceros sondaicus has so great a resemblance in its general phy- 
siognomy, to the Indian Rhinoceros, hitherto known by the name of One-horned 
Rhinoceros, that it requires considerable accuracy and care to demonstrate its 
distinguisliing characters. Having had an opportunity, during my residence at 
Surakarta, the capital of the dominions of the Emperor of Java, to examine an 
individual, taken during infancy, and kept in confinement, or rather in a state of 
