SUKOTYRO. 
^tinder the title of a Voyage to India ; illus* 
Crated by many figures of subjects in natural 
history, some of which partake largely in 
that rudeness and want / of accuracy which 
prevailed at the period when he lived and in 
the country where he resided. No peculiar 
imputation of any wilful misrepresentation or 
want of veracity, in this early Dutch traveller, 
has ever, we believe, beenalledged against him.; 
and, therefore, it seems but candid to suppose, 
that this figure is as near what it pretends to 
represent, as others given in his work whic"h 
Jiappen to be better known. 
Making such allowance, the Sukotyro may 
be considered as a genus of not very remote 
-afhnity to the Rhinoceros, and the Elephant; 
between which it has been placed in the Sys- 
tema Naturse of Linnsus and Gmelin, as 
in part translated by Mr. Kern 
In the generical character of the Sukotyrus, 
or Sukotyro, it is described as having a horn on 
«ach side of the head close to the orbits : and 
'■ the trivial name of the single species, is Suko- 
tyrus Indicus, or ' the Javan; Su'kotyro ; which 
