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Show 1877.] VISCERAL ANATOMY OF RHINOCEROS SONDAICUS. 707 (1826) p. 371; Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 203, sp. 12; Less. Suppl. Buff. (1847) p. 113; Burm. Syst. Uebers. Thier. Bras. (1854) p. 87; J.E.Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1867) p. 271 ; id. Cat. Carn. M a m m . (1869) p. 22. Felis brasiliensis, F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. M a m m . (1828) vol. ii. pl. 139. Felis elegans, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 69, pl. 21. Leopardus tigrinoides, J. E. Gray, List M a m m . Brit. Mus. (1843) p. 42. Panthera brasiliensis, Fitz. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, (1869) lix. p. 236. Panthera macrura, id. ibid. p. 242. Panthera venusta, id. ibid. p. 244. Hab. Central America southwards to Paraguay. 4. O n some Points in the Visceral Anatomy of the Rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds {Rhinoceros sondaicus). By A. H . G A R R O D , M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society. [Eeceived October 1, 1877.] Our present knowledge of the visceral anatomy of the Rhinocero-tidse is confined to that of the two species Rhinoceros unicornis and Ceratorhinus sumatrensis. Professor Owen has given us, in the 'Transactions' of this Society (vol. iv. pp. 31 et seq.) an exhaustive account of the former of these animals; and in the ' Proceedings' (1873, pp. 92 et seq.) it has been my endeavour to indicate most of the important features in the latter, which, as Prof. Flower has kindly pointed out to me, were briefly described by Sir E. H o m e in the 'Philosophical Transactions' (1821, p. 271). On the present occasion I bring before the Society m y notes on a young female of the Sondaic Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), which died in the menagerie of Mr. C. Jamrach, after having been in this country for a little more than half a year. It was only the skinned trunk which came into m y possession. It is the nature of the mucous membrane of the small intestine which was certain to be of greatest interest; and this I am able to describe in detail. The individual under consideration measures, stuffed, six feet two inches from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail. The tail itself is a foot long, whilst the height of the animal at the shoulder is three feet. From the middle of the occipital crest, along the curve of the superior surface of the skull, to the tips of the nasal bones is thirteen and a half inches, the same measuremeut in adult animals being twenty-two inches. The single milk-incisor on each side of each jaw is still in place, as are all the milk-molars. The first true molar has not cut the gum ; but its cap is seen within the bony alveolus. No traces of the other molars are visible. |