RHINOCEROS SONDAICUS. 
domestication, I propose here to detail concisely the peculiarities on which the 
specific distinction is founded, and to add some general remarks on the manners and 
distribution of this species through the Island. 
The separation of this, from the common Indian species, the Rhinoceros uni- 
cornis of Linns', and the Rhinoceros indicus of the Rdgne animal, was proposed 
by the Baron Cuvier, who applied to it the name of Rhinoceros sondaicus. I am 
acquainted with his account and definition of this species, only by the summary notice 
published by M. Desmarest in the Encyclopedia j and this has served for my com- 
parison. But the decision of M, Cuvier on this subject must be considered conclu- 
sive. To ascertain and establish the characters of a new species, he was prepared, 
not only by his unparalleled knowledge as a Zoologist, but also by his previous 
labours and researches concerning the common Indian, or One-horned Rhinoceros. 
We owe to him the most complete account that has yet been made public of this 
species ; it is contained in the Mdnagerie du 3fus. d'Hist Nat., and illustrated by a 
beautiful and accurate engraving. The materials I have collected to enable me to 
contribute to the illustration of this species, consist in some remarks made at 
Surakarta, in 1817, and in a drawing, prepared under my inspection, by an artist, 
who, although educated in Java, had acquired considerable proficiency. On the 
Plate annexed to this article, a careful representation is given of this drawing, which, 
though deficient in some points that the skilful pencil of Mr. Daniell would have 
supplied from the living animal, exhibits, with scrupulous accuracy, the form and 
proportions of our animal. This individual was, by measurement taken in 1817, 
nine feet long, and four feet three inches high at the rump. The Rhinoceros figured 
by M. Fred. Cuvier, in the 13th Livraison of the Hist. Nat des Mammiferes, 
brought to Europe from the British possessions in India, was higher in proportion 
to its length, and its form was more unwieldy. The entire length was seven feet, 
and its height four feet and ten inches. The individual described by M. Georges 
Cuvier, in the Menag, du Mus. &c. had, according to the dimensions given, a more 
lengthened form: but the figure exhibits an animal, in comparison with the 
Rhinoceros sondaicus, of greater bulk, and more gross dimensions. The head 
of our animal is strongly attenuated to the muzzle, and has a triangular form ; 
the flexible upper lip is considerably lengthened, and the sides of the head are 
marked with protuberances, or scutula, resembling those on the body, but no great 
roughnesses or folds are apparent. The characters therefore, given by M. Cuvier, 
as far as regard the form of the body and of the head, are confirmed by the 
drawing, and by the measures taken from life. The marks of distinction 
afforded by the folds of the external covering, are less evident than those afforded 
by the form of the body and the attenuated head, The following modifications may, 
