RHINOCEROS BICORNIS.-Lin. 
Mammalia. — Plate II. — (Female and Young.) 
R. pallide flavo-brunneus, comubus longitudine insequalibus ; collo ad caput sulco circumdato ; oculis 
brunneis. 
Longitudo 10 ped. 11. unc. 
Rhinoceros Africanus, Cut. Reg. Animal. 
Colour. — Pale yellowish brown, with tints of purple upon the sides of the 
head and the muzzle ; the groins flesh-coloured ; eyes dark brown ; the horns 
livid brown, clouded with green ; the hair on the tip of the tail and the 
margins of the ears deep black. 
Form, &c. — Head rather deep in proportion to its length, which gives it 
an appearance of clumsiness beyond either of the other South African 
species ; the anterior horn directly over the extremity of the nose, the first 
half nearly perpendicular, the last half slightly curved backwards ; the pos- 
terior horn conical, and often exhibiting an appearance as if the point of a 
smaller sized cone had been fixed upon the section of a larger one, which 
observation to a certain extent might also be applied to the front horn ; 
towards their bases both are rough, and more or less distinctly fibrous ; 
towards the points hard, smooth, and finely polished. Eyes small; the skin 
surrounding them as well as that in front of the ears and on the muzzle and 
the upper and lower lips, deeply cut by narrow wrinkles ; the extremity of 
the upper lip scarcely produced. The neck is thick, short, and at its junction 
with the head encircled by a deep furrow formed in the skin ; the shoulder 
with a rudimentary hunch ; the body round and heavy ; limbs rather shorter in 
proportion than in R. Keitloa. Tail flattened towards the extremity, elsewhere 
somewhat cylindrical ; the upper and lower edges near the tip fringed with 
thick wiry hair. The surface of the skin rather rougher than in the species 
last described, owing to its being intersected by a greater number of wiinkles. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Feet. Inches. 
Length from nose to root of tail 10 11 
Height at the shoulder 4 10 
Feet. Inches. 
Length of anterior horn 1 7 
of posterior horn 0 6^ 
The relative lengths of the horns vary a little in different individuals, but 
the hindermost one in both sexes is invariably much the shortest, and in 
