. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. RHINO CERO TID^ 405 shows, was of this species. It was sent from India to Emmanuel, King of Portugal, in 1513; and from a sketch of it, taken in Lisbon, Albert Diirer composed his celebrated but rather fanciful engraving, which was reproduced in so many old books on natural history. Both in this and the following species the post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes of the squamosal bone of the skull unite below so as to completely surround the external auditory meatus. The molar teeth are hypsodont, and have a horizontal pl
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. RHINO CERO TID^ 405 shows, was of this species. It was sent from India to Emmanuel, King of Portugal, in 1513; and from a sketch of it, taken in Lisbon, Albert Diirer composed his celebrated but rather fanciful engraving, which was reproduced in so many old books on natural history. Both in this and the following species the post-glenoid and post-tympanic processes of the squamosal bone of the skull unite below so as to completely surround the external auditory meatus. The molar teeth are hypsodont, and have a horizontal plane of wear; those of the upper jaw (Fig. 168, V) being charac- terised by the presence of a combing-plate joining the crotchet, and. Fio. 169.âIndian lUiinoceros (SJiinoceros unicornis). This figiu'e, and also figures 170, 172, are reduced from drawings by J. Wolf, from animals living in the London Zoological Society's Gardens. the absence of a distinct buttress at the antero-external angle. The stomach departs from the ordinary Perissodactyle type. The small intestine is beset over most of its sui'face mth long and fine villi; and the Spigelian lobe of the liver is well developed. There is a gland behind the foot. Tee£h from the Pleistocene of the Xarbada valley in India apparently indicate the existence of the Indian Rhinoceros at that epoch. (2) The Javan Rhinoceros (B. sondaicus, Fig. 170) is a smaller form, readily distinguished by dental and internal characters, as well as by the different arrange- ment of the plications of the skin (as seen in the figures); the horn in the female appears to be very little developed, if not altogether absent. This species has â a more extensive geographical range, being found in the Bengal Sunderbans near Calcutta, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and probably Borneo. The molar teeth have shorter cro'\\'ns than in the preceding species, and wear into ridges; those of the upper jaw (Fig. 168, a) having no combing-. Please n
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