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a corresponding backward curvature. An anterior born of this 
small Rhinoceros in tbe British Museum measures thirty- two 
inches along its front, and is seventeen inches in span from base 
to tip. We have seen a pair of horns of this Rhinoceros beautifully 
carved and polished, and set with the bases upwards and on a 
parallel in a carved black wooden stand, similar to those upon 
which Chinese metallic mirrors are mounted ; and the Chinamen 
give such extravagant prices for fine specimens that they are 
exceedingly difficult to be got hold of by any one else. We have 
seen a pair upon the head, the value of which was estimated at 
five guineas ; and the price, as usual, increases with the size and 
length to a sum much higher. 
The Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros has a comparatively smooth 
hide, which is somewhat thinly, though conspicuously, covered 
with short and coarsish black hair throughout : there are folds 
about the neck, a distinct fold behind the fore quarters, a slight 
fold, or rather crease, anterior to the hind limbs, and another 
slight fold at some distance above the hock; but nothing com- 
parable to the plaits of mail of the two One-horned Rhinoceroses. 
Inside of the folds the skin is of a sullied pinkish colour, and else- 
where its hue is brownish ashy. Its hide is rough, but not thick 
or hard, being easily cut through with a knife ; where thickest 
it does not exceed one third of an inch, decreasing to a quarter of 
an inch on the belly. The form of the skull approximates to certain 
of the extinct Rhinoceroses of the European- Asiatic continent, 
which were also two-horned, and the huge northern (extinct) R. 
tichorhinus , which is known to have been thickly clad with woolly 
hair. The Indian R. platyrhinus (likewise extinct), of the late 
Dr. Yalconer more especially, is just an immensely magnified 
representation of the diminutive existent C. sumatranus. 
The earliest description of the Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros 
is by Mr. William Bell, then surgeon at Bencoolen, in Sumatra ; 
it is to be found in the Philosophical Transactions for 1793. In the 
same year the second edition of Pennant’s History of Quadrupeds 
appeared, giving a slight notice of the species, also as an in- 
habitant of Sumatra ; but little was at that time known of the 
geographical limits of the range of particular species, and Pennant 
never suspected its non- identity with the then known Two-horned 
Rhinoceros of Africa. Bell gave a tolerable figure of the beast, 
