II. Description of the double horned rhinoceros of Sumatra

Abstract

The animal herein described was shot, with a leaden ball from a musket, about ten miles from Fort Marlborough. I saw it the day after; it was then not in the least putrid, and I put it into the position from which the accompanying drawing was made. (See Tab. II.) It was a male, the height at the shoulder was four feet four inches; at the sacrum nearly the same; from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, eight feet five inches. From the appearance of its teeth and bones it was but young, and probably not near its full size.