TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
** from Bengal, and other parts of India, had 
" always double horns, and all those which 
^ ** came from the Cape of Good Hope had 
** but one horn." This last passage,'* con- 
cludes BufFon, " proves what we have for- 
merly remarked, that the Rhinoceroses with 
double horns form a variety in the species — a 
particular race — which is found equally in Asia 
and Africa." 
In a commuiiication from Mr. Bruce, to 
Buffon, that traveller observes, that all the 
Rhinoceroses which he saw in Abyssinia had 
two horns: the first — that is, the one nearest 
the nose — of the common forrn; the second, 
sharp at the point, and always shorter than the 
first. " Both,'^ says Mr. Bruce, " spring 
*' at the same time ; but the first grows more 
** quick, and exceeds the other in size, not 
only during the time of growth, but during 
*' the whole life of the animaL'* 
Mr. Bruce gives this animal credit for a very 
ingenious stratagem to avoid the attacks of a 
small fly, which infests it's hide, and would' 
otherwise soon prove fatal. By rolling it- 
self in the mud during the night," this cele- 
brated 
