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Show 654 MR. BARTLETT ON THE BORNEAN RHINOCEROS. [Dec. 1, 4. Notes on the Bornean Rhinoceros. By EDWARD BARTLETT, Naturalist to the Government of Sarawak. [Received October 29, 1891.] Four heads and three horns of the Rhinoceros of Borneo are in the Museum at Kuching, Sarawak, of which I send the following details and photographs :- 1. Head with the skin still on it. Length of head, from front of nose to centre of coronal ridge of skin, 19£ inches ; across forehead to corner of eyes 7f inches ; tip of upper lip to corner of mouth 65 inches ; front horn 4\ inches ; hind horn 2 inches long. (No. 1 in the photograph.) 2. Head partly covered with skin. Horn 5 inches long; the hind one is merely a round knob. The skull is of about the same size as the first. (No. 2 in the photograph.) 3. Skull only : measures 20 inches from the tip of the nasal bones to the coronal ridge ; forehead from eye to eye 5f inches; lower jaw 16\ inches. (No. 3 in the photograph.) 4. Skull only: from nasal bone to coronal ridge 20^- inches; forehead between the orbits 6| inches; lower jaw 17 inches. (This skull is not figured in the photograph.) Horns of Bhinoceros sumatrensis, no. 5. (From a photograph.) 5. Two horns on skin of the upper part of the head. Front horn 19^ inches; the second horn is well developed. The base of the front one is 16 inches in circumference. (No. 4 in the photograph.) 6. Single horn 11 inches; circumference of base 11^ inches. (No. 5 in the photograph.) 7. Single horn 6 inches; circumference about 9 inches. (No. 6 in the photograph.) |