RHINOCEROS SIMUS.— Rurchell. 
Mammalia. — Plate XIX. 
R pallid brunneo-griseus, flavo-brunneo tinctus; aurium marginibus versus apicem, caudlque supra 
P ^Mque ad extremitatem pills, rigidis, uigris vestitis; ore bovine; cornibus duobus, antenore multo 
longiore ; oculis flavo-brunneis. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite, 12 ped. 1 unc; caudee, 2 ped. 2 unc. 
Colour — Pale broccoli-brown, the shoulders, buttocks and belly shaded 
with brownish purple ; hair edging the ears and the tip of the tad rnferrorly 
and superiorly black; eyes yellowish brown; horns and hoofs rntermedrate 
between broccoli and wood-brown,— the hoots darkest. t ; 
F ob ,i fee -Figure massive. Head longer but more del.cate m proportion 
than in' the other African species; face concave; forehead prominent and 
gibbous. Ears rather long, ovate and pointed, their edges towards he Up 
above and below fringed with short wiry bristles. Homs e.tuated c ose to he 
anterior extremity of the 
n08e '. “Vnd 6 rXTmver'the concavity’ backwards, the second is short, 
obfris/a, point. 
^m^ry'proboscis. Nostrils rather small, opening laterally. 
Ft. 
dimensions. 
In. 
Length from the tip of the nose to 
the base of the tail ^ 
2 
of the tail 
of the first horn ^ 
1 
2 
11 
Ft. 
Length of the second horn 0 
Height at the shoulder 5 
at the crupper 5 
Circumference of the body 12 
In. 
10 
7 
3 
1 
